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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Even though this book isn't as well known as Good Night Moon, the illustration quality I felt was better. This book relates to children because it uses their language. It's a thin book. The art took up more than a page, which is why the photographic artistry is an exceptional way for a child to learn about the author's text. The concepts of the wind, the spoon, the apple, the sky, transition between inside the house and outside are accurately captured in a collage effect, but through photographs. (  ) nieva21 | Dec 4, 2009 |  This books is an informational book that describes different objects in the world. It tells what is imporant about these objects and why these objects are there. This book has interesting illustrations and could be a fun book to read to a class. kefoley | Nov 4, 2009 | The Important Book written by Margaret Wise Brown, and pictures by Leonard Weisgard, is a very simple book, yet wonderfully descriptive. This is a fabulous book to help children learn to decipher the important things about a variety of objects. This book is perfect for reading out loud with little ones, and has lovely old fashion pictures. The important thing about this book, is that you let your children tell you what is important about each thing. As well, the other important thing about this book is the book goes on long after it is closed. This book is great for children 4-8, and can be used in a variety of grade levels from K-6th grade. This book would lead to many great lessons, and is a great idea to use with teachers at the end of lesions to really see what the important thing is about the lessons he/she just taught. The science concept in this book is very accurate throughout with explaining in detail about each thing. (  ) RMott | Oct 28, 2009 | This book is talking about what the most important thing is about yourself. It goes through and asks what is most important about different things such as a spoon, rain, wind, apples, daisies, grass and then at the end it tells you that the most important thing about you is you. Good book to build confidence. (  ) amguess | Oct 27, 2009 | “The Important Book” written by Margaret Wise Brown is a great book that children would love. This book describes many things and expands on the purposes of simple things. The importance of spoons, daisies, rain, grass, snow, apples, wind, the sky, and shoes are all mentioned in this book. For example, the book states the importance of snow: “The important thing about snow is that it is white. It is cold, and light, it falls softly out of the sky, it is bright, and the shape of tiny stars, and crystals.” This story also stressed the belief that every individual is important and has much to offer. I would read this story to Kindergarten to Second grade students. Lakapp | Oct 15, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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"The important thing about rain is/ that it is wet./ It falls out of the sky,/ and it sounds like rain,/ and makes things shiny,/ and it does not taste like anything,/ and is the color of air./ But the important thing about rain is that it is wet."
Goodnight Moon creator Margaret Wise Brown's The Important Book is a deceptively simple exercise--taking familiar things like an apple, spoon, or shoe, and finding the most basic association with those things. The most important thing about an apple? It is round. A spoon? You eat with it. A shoe? You put your foot in it. But why, according to Brown, is the most important thing about grass "that it is green," while the most important thing about an apple is "that it is round"? Why is "that it is white" the most important thing about snow and a daisy? Whether or not you'd distill these things in the same way that the author does, Brown makes us think about the essence of everyday entities in new ways. The illustrations, by Caldecott Medal winner Leonard Weisgard (The Little Island), perform the same function--capturing the spoonness of spoons, the roundness of an apple, the motion of wind.
Happily, Brown went on to create the companion Another Important Book, about the importance of being one, two, three, four, five, and six years old--published for the first time in 1999 with fabulous artwork by Caldecott Honor artist Chris Raschka (Yo! Yes?). Both of Brown's "important books" will endure the test of time as fresh, thought-provoking ways to examine the world around us. (Click to see a sample spread. Text copyright renewed 1977 by Roberta Brown Rauch. Illustrations copyright renewed 1977 by Leonard Weisgard. Permission from HarperCollins Publishers.) (Preschool and older) --Karin Snelson
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