The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Juster, Norton

The Hello, Goodbye Window

32 pp. | Hyperion/di Capua | April, 2005 | Trade ISBN 0-7868-0914-0 $15.95

(2) PS Illustrated by Chris Raschka. In Juster's paean to loving grandparents, the young narrator relates the comforting routines she shares with her grandparents when she visits. The familial love that is Juster's subtext finds overt expression, spectacularly, in Raschka's lush mixed-media illustrations set off perfectly by white space. A varied layout, balancing exterior and interior landscapes with smaller character vignettes, helps sustain the book's energy.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2005