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Greenstein, Elaine
6 Reviews
(3)
K-3
Lorenz was the founder of the science of animal behavior, but his fascination with geese is the focus of Greenstein's picture book biography. More than an introduction to a scientist, this is the tale of a boy who was curious about animals and never outgrew that passion. Greenstein's soft gouache, ink, and colored-pencil illustrations extend her straightforward text. Reading list.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth
(3)
PS
Using a few well-chosen words per double-page spread, each of these small books describes a different process. Moving from lamb to wool to yarn to knitting, Lamb shows the creation of two mittens. Seed portrays the cycle of a plant's life from seed to sunflower and back to seed. The attractive illustrations zoom in on various stages of each process. Review covers these titles: One Little Lamb and One Little Seed.
Reviewer: Martha Sibert
(3)
PS
Using a few well-chosen words per double-page spread, each of these small books describes a different process. Moving from lamb to wool to yarn to knitting, Lamb shows the creation of two mittens. Seed portrays the cycle of a plant's life from seed to sunflower and back to seed. The attractive illustrations zoom in on various stages of each process. Review covers these titles: One Little Lamb and One Little Seed.
Reviewer: Martha Sibert
(2)
K-3
This entertaining account of the invention of the ice-cream cone begins at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where ice cream and waffles "came together." But "who came up with the idea first?" Greenstein differentiates between the information she could and couldn't substantiate, offering a lesson on the sometimes rocky road of historical research. The finely lined, sherbet-colored prints enhance the text's playful tone. Bib.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2003
(4)
PS
"Then you grew as high as the tomato plant, / your face was as bright as a sunflower, / your fingertips as sweet as raspberries." Some of the comparisons will resonate with toddlers, but others seem sentimentally adult. Nicely attuned to kids, though, are the alternating spreads with animal comparisons: "You were as waddly as a duck." The animal illustrations are also livelier than the sweet pictures of a cherubic child.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander
(4)
PS
Delicately lined and colored artwork, framed on midnight blue pages, arranges placid naturalistic images in a countdown from ten to one, apparently as imagined by a child drifting off to sleep. Details such as the numbers themselves being shaped from groups of stars make the book lovely to look at, if not very substantive.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
6 reviews
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