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Ljungkvist, Laura
7 Reviews
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PS
This companion to Ljungkvist's Search and Spot: Animals! offers transportation-themed challenges for picture-puzzle fanatics. Single pages and spreads are packed with similar-looking (at first glance) vehicles or related objects; readers are charged with finding certain items amidst the busy, carefully composed pages. The stylish retro design is inviting and even soothing. The final page presents a new challenge and lists a website with answer keys.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2016
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Ljungkvist uses page-turns to play a game of hide-and-seek in this creature-themed search-and-find book. Requiring readers to pick out distinct shapes from what at first look like random patterns, the puzzles become increasingly complex. Each spread is an elegant display of design and balance, worthy of close observation even after the search-and-find goal is met. A website shows the animals' locations.
Reviewer: Lolly Robinson
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2015
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Readers tour Ljungkvist's bustling digital collage illustrations with a continuous black line that wends its way through every page, taking the shape of words and various objects. The line snakes through the school's front door and enters a colorful classroom while the text asks questions about the items pictured. There's something of interest everywhere; even the cafeteria food looks yummy.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2011
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K-3
Pepi the parrot croons the same version of "Twinkle, Twinkle" to his owner nightly. To find ideas for new lyrics, Pepi visits a bakery, a music studio, a market, and other happily cluttered locales. Digitally rendered illustrations in eye-popping colors place Pepi all over the page, investigating and naming items. Pepi's nonsensical new ditties might inspire young songwriters to mine their surroundings for material.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2010
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This third Follow the Line book goes global, beginning in Kenya and ending in space, with fact-provisioned stops along the way. The "line" is jumpy, going from Sri Lanka to Mexico, for example, and what it traces isn't always the most interesting image on the page. Still, there's lots to look at, and the book will keep little eyes and fingers busy.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
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This book explores the wilds of a refrigerator, a closet, a toolbox, and other domestic spaces. A black line travels from page to page, forming the shapes of different objects as it goes. The text asks questions ranging from the enumerative to the open-ended. When the tour is over, Ljungkvist extends an invitation to go back; readers won't need any coaxing.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2007
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K-3
When Toni phones her friends with plans for a potluck supper, it's so noisy that nobody hears her correctly. Everyone brings the wrong contribution--"a pooch and a maid," for example, instead of "punch and lemonade." The story is amusing, though it could use some tightening. In her energetic illustrations, Ljungkvist makes creative use of geometric shapes and a continuous black line.
Reviewer: Martha Sibert
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