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Stoop, Naoko
4 Reviews
(4)
PS
This fresh presentation of classic nursery rhymes and action songs, aimed at parents, gives each rhyme its own full-bleed spread featuring serenely happy children and animals in dreamy, dusky landscapes. The artistry is stunning, but the lack of musical support (neither notation nor a CD is provided) limit the book's usefulness for parents not already conversant in the nursery canon.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross
(3)
K-3
In Red Knit Cap Girl's third book, she and her animal friends turn a nook under a tree into a library. The whisper-calm narrative describes the sweet collaboration: animals give books to the cause, sheep donate blankets for cozy reading, and Beaver contributes a homemade bookshelf. Stoop's unmistakable mixed-media illustrations on plywood have an enticing, mildly luminous look.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
(4)
PS
In this follow-up to Red Knit Cap Girl, the heroine responds to an SOS from a polar bear cub that has floated away from its family on an ice floe. The shimmery illustrations, which were created on plywood, are lovely, but without very much tension along the way, the success of her mission to bring the cub home feels too inevitable.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
(4)
PS
Red Knit Cap Girl, who lives in the forest with her animal friends, longs to talk to the moon. As she attempts to reach it (e.g., she climbs a tree), her naiveté seems contrived, which makes it hard to get behind her plight. The plywood on which Stoop cunningly paints and draws creates impressions of ripples, wind, and clouds.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
4 reviews
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