Caldecott Monday: Arrow to the Sun

[osprey_archer]

Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale has absolutely gorgeous pictures. It's all bright colored geometric shapes pieced together on black backgrounds, very striking and bright, the kind of book where the cover stops you halfway across the library because it's so eye-catching.

I know nothing about Pueblo Indian mythology, so I have no idea how accurate it is about anything. But the pictures are A++.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You've reached books that came out in my own childhood. I loved this book and can remember the feel of the pages in my hand (not to mention the gorgeous pictures.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I'm super looking forward to the books from the eighties & early nineties, because those are my home stomping grounds, as it were.

As much as I've enjoyed meeting new picture books in this challenge, it's also heightened my sense that picture books are best enjoyed by being read over and over again - the way children experience them. They're not long enough to be immersive the way that a novel is in one sitting.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Sounds fascinating.