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Round Trip Review
This book isn't just the story of a round trip--it is a round trip! Read forward and look at the sights, then flip the book over to see something different on the way back. Ann Jonas's amazing two-way trip is guarnateed to change the way you look at things! User Submitted Round Trip ReviewsAugust 8, 2008 A picture is worth a thousand words! I first used this book with my second graders as a pre-service art teacher last spring and knew I needed it for my own classroom library! This is truly a picture book with limited text to help children see what Ann Jonas intended with her black and white silhouette imagery. Be prepared for "ooohs," "aahs," and excited gasps as you make the trip home from the city with the family in the book! March 16, 2008 Round Trip I had read this book many years ago and needed a fun book to read to primary aged kids when I subbed in a second grade class room. They loved it as much as I did. It was also a book I put in the PEO educational basket our chapter donated to local community college to raise funds for scholarships! March 11, 2006 Great kids book! I am a preschool teacher and this book was a real hit with my 3 to 6 year olds it really sparks their imagination. On child said I really like that the pictures are in black and white because you could imagine what the colors are. They loved guessing what the pictures were when they were upside down. March 3, 2006 Great Book for Teaching Circular Ending This book is an excellent visual and text example of circular endings. I use it in both my reading and writing workshops. Very neat concept when you flip the book upside down to see new pictures and text. September 18, 2005 Reversible in black and white "Round Trip" is a book with a surprise! Each black and white scene tells half of a story and then the book can be turned upside down to tell the second half. Drawings work either right side up or upside down and are visual delights. We read it over and over. February 16, 2004 Intro to M.C. Escher I remember this book! That's what I thought to myself as I picked up this sly little piece of black and white elegance. When I was a child I remember seeing this book in some form or context. Literal minded child that I was, I was always a little perturbed by the content. In this book, deceptively simple black and white photographs tell the story of a car trip to the city and then back home to the suburbs again. To read this book, the teller reads it first one way to the city, then turns the entire book upside down to tell the story going back to home again. To accomplish this trick, author/illustrator Ann Jonas utilizes her skills as a graphic designer to create pictures that use negative space adroitly. This book is like a series of industrial M.C. Escher prints. Jonas's book resembles her husband Donald Crews similar storyline in "Freight Train". In both books, the focus is on moving through a landscape. You never see people in either story. But while the focus of "Freight Train" is to concentrate on the speed of a single object, this book looks squarely at the scenery. Any child that has ever been forced to spend hours in the back of a car on the highway will recognize the sights seen along the road. Sheep, lakes, and forest trails abound. Though Jonas's technical wizardry almost steals the show, there is a lot to be said for the beauty of the images themselves. Kids who have read this book more than once may find themselves having some difficulty seeing a single picture one way and not another. I myself had to strain to make an image of smoky factories not appear to be a farmhouse upside down. I don't see this as a book that children will necessarily scream for at night. At the same time, it is just the kind of book that a child 20 years down the road might pick up in a local library, flip through absently, and say to themselves, "I remember this book!". Basically, every picture tells TWO stories. You read the book through, then turn it over and read it upside down. A bridge with water running under it and cars driving over it become, when upside down, a fence with electric poles and wires running alongside and stars in the sky above! It's really a wonderful little book. Only 4 stars because the story isn't interesting enough to read twice, although the pictures are great fun to look at over and over again.
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