5/29/2023 0 Comments Redwoods by Jason Chin![]() ![]() ![]() And that’s because it’s every bit as good as the reviewers say. I hope, however, that you have actually read it - and not just read about it. Most of those are starred reviews, I might add. You may have read about Redwoods (Flashpoint, March 2009) in Betsy Bird’s early-June review (“you have kids that think non-fiction is dull as dishwater? Meet the cure”) in the Horn Book (“the book is…a contagious celebration of the relationship between information and imagination, the pure joy of learning”) in Booklist (“the first book Chin has written as well as illustrated is a real eye-opener”) in Kirkus (“an inventive, eye-opening adventure”) in School Library Journal (“this remarkable picture book delivers a mix of fantasy and fiction through beautifully detailed watercolors”) or Publisher’s Weekly (“Playing with the notion of just how immersive a book can be, illustrator Chin…makes his authorial debut with a clever exploration of coast redwoods”). I’m shining a spotlight today on someone who is not new to children’s lit but who has just released the first title he’s both written and illustrated. “…In some cases, a huge portion of the center of the trunk has been burned out, ![]()
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