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The Hello, Goodbye Window (Caldecott Medal) (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
by Norton Juster (Author), Chris Raschka (Illustrator)
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Children's book, Award-winning, Love |
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The window in Nanna and Poppy's kitchen is no ordinary window - it is the place where love and magic happens. |
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Author: Norton Juster (Author), Chris Raschka (Illustrator)
Publisher: Michael Di Capua Books
Pub. in: May, 2005
ISBN: 0786809140
Pages: 32
Measurements: 11.1 x 10.2 x 0.5 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00421
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0786809141
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- Awards & Credential -
The winner of 2005 Caldecott Medal. |
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This is a very happy and cheerful book, and written in very kid friendly language.
The "hello, goodbye window" is the downstairs window in the kitchen at the little girls Nanna and Poppy's house. She is explaining how it is unlike any other window. Whenever she goes to their house she can say hello and have fun with them through the window before she gets in the house. She can look through the window once inside and see a lot of what's going on in the world around the neighborhood around her.
One of the real nice things about this book is that it doesn't completely focus on the kitchen window, but also on the little girl and Nanna making their favorite meals, talking, laughing, and listening to Poppy play his harmonica.
This book goes deeper than just talking about a window in a house of a kitchen. It's more about being together will family and those that you love. It's about sharing what you have, in this case it was time, fun, experiences and love. The window also serves as that constant we sometimes have in our lives in a place where we can be ourselves and be safe. Something that connects us to what's around us and the people around us.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 4
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Norton Juster is an architect (retired), a teacher (retired), and a grandfather (just warming up), as well as a writer. He is the author of the children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth and the mathematical romance The Dot and the Line. Chris Raschka's Hyperion titles include Happy to Be Nappy, little tree, Be Boy Buzz, and Skin Again. HBFC has also published his Thingy Things series, which includes Moosey Moose, Whaley Whale, Sluggy Slug, and Doggy Dog. Raschka's Yo! Yes? is a Caldecott Honor Book.
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The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy's house is, for one little girl, a magic gateway. Everything important happens near it, through it, or beyond it. Told in her voice, her story is both a voyage of discovery and a celebration of the commonplace wonders that define childhood. It is also a love song devoted to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild.
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Tee Royal (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-25 00:00>
Narrated by a young girl, The Hello, Goodbye Window is an endearing story that details the importance of a very special window and the grandparents who live on the other side of it. The little girl uses the window to greet her grandparents, play games, look out at the world, and wave goodbye at the end of her trip.
I enjoyed The Hello, Goodbye Window and its view of the relationship between children and their grandparents. The drawings are almost kid-like scribbles that give the story a more child-like appeal, complementing the narration. The colors are bright and craftily tell the story of those passing the windows, Poppy's harmonica playing, the dark blue/black sky and the stars that inhabit it. Juster does a wonderful job of showing the world through the eyes of a child and her connection of all things important to the kitchen window. Additionally, teaching children about interracial families (depicted in the drawings, not the words) is a good way to introduce those children of mixed heritage.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-25 00:00>
Offering a kids-eye-view of Grandma and Grandpa's house, "The Hello, Goodbye Window" celebrates the pleasure in simple things, from using a step stool to reach the kitchen sink to getting squirted with the hose. The story is told from the point of view of a little girl, although I would say the child's gender is really interdeterminate, so don't let that stop you from reading this one to those who want "boy" books. With all the precision and detail of a four-year-old, the narrator points out every step in her day, including her nap during which "nothing happens until I get up." The colors and drawing style are hyper and loose, so lively it's almost leaping off the page. If your initial reaction is to reject the artwork for it's very loose style, take another couple of looks as it really grows on you; I did not appreciate the illustration until about the 3rd run through. A fun, friendly, full-of-love story that would be good for one-on-one reading with the kindergarten set. 2006 Caldecott Award Winner. |
Allen Greenbaum (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-25 00:00>
The voice here sounds like a young girl's spontaneous speech, or perhaps the reminiscence of an adult looking at a foggy past. In either case, famed author Norman Juster ("The Phantom Tollbooth"), and multiple Caldecott honor winner Chris Raschka (who finally won the actual Award with this book) combine to form an impressionistic mélange of character study and memory.
While we don't get to know the unnamed heroine very well, Juster captures the most important facets of the toddler personality. The girl is amusingly egocentric, and has an active imagination. For example, through the "Hello-Goodbye" window she sees a dinosaur ("he doesn't come around much"), the "Queen of England" ("Nana is English you know, so the Queen likes to come for tea"), and the pizza boy (who, of course, knows her favorite flavor). There's really very little plot--just revealing snapshot scenes of her sometimes quirky grandmother and grandfather.
The Hello-Goodbye window itself in not central to the story, it's like a theatrical set piece that limns such concepts as inside/outside, arrival/departure, reality/fantasy, day/night, and open/secret. However, these "big" ideas lie just beneath the book's surface; overall, the story has the slightly random and spontaneous exuberance of a child who can't wait to get the words out. As mentioned above, illustrator Raschka won the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations: A childlike style full of jumbled color-forms with big circles and squiggles of color-on-color crayon, watercolor, and (perhaps) pastels. Although some pictures appear somewhat abstract, closer and repeated observation reveals recognizable objects, such as a harmonica, a teakettle, and oatmeal with raisins. "A shelf full of glass jars," has a single brown horizontal line, broad streaks of light blue for the bottles, and oranges and yellows for the colors and reflections. The pictures can be busy, but they're never garish or messy. There's a child-like pairing of soft colors with overworked crayons (as if Raschka is covering a mistake), and these both melt and collide with each other. Somehow, Raschka imparts uniformity and even precision within this cacophony, as when he shows the girl and her grandfather seeing their reflection in the Window at night.
The girl and her grandparents enjoy a very protective but fun relationship, and she delights in their ways. "Poppy chases me with the hose [a garden hose] and I yell, 'Stop it Poppy, stop it!! When he does I ask him to do it again." At the conclusion, the girl informs us that the Hello-Goodbye window is "right where you need it." To me, it represents a healthy combination of structure and discovery. This is a book that quietly honors the big and small things that go into a relationship, and does so in a near-perfect pitch of child-style.
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L. Douglas (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-25 00:00>
"The Hello, Goodbye Window" is delightful - with imaginative art, warm and welcoming text - a perfect book to read before, after or during a visit to grandparents or any other caretaker in a child's life. Matter-of-fact moments - going from one's own home to one's grandparents' home and back again, sharing breakfast, taking naps, playing outside - are infused with charm and combined with the wonderful fancy that epitomizes the best of conversations and time shared among generations. I enjoy this book as much as the children do, and that is quite a lot indeed. |
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