Antoinette Portis is an award winning US author and illustrator. Antoinette made her picture-book debut with the New York Times best-selling Not A Box, an American Library Association Seuss Geisel Honor book, and one of the New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year. She was a recipient of the 2010 Sendak Fellowship.
I borrowed Now from a school library this week. This library add a little sticker to their books if they are special favourites - they call them "Our Picks". I love this idea and always feel a little thrill when I borrow a book with one of those stickers.
This is my favourite breeze.
This is my favourite leaf.
This is my favourite hole (this one) because it's the one I am digging.
This is my favourite mud. This is my favourite worm.
That is my favourite cloud because it's the one I am watching.
The structure of this text reads like a poem and in poetry every word is so carefully selected and placed. With young children you could use each page of this book as a discussion starter and with older children you could use this text as a model for writing. It would also be terrific to discuss the cover design - half the face on the front with the huge leaf and half when you stretch the book out.
I would pair this with another book by Antoinette Portis - Wait.
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