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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  lynny_nicole | Nov 15, 2009 |  This book is about a little girl who goes to her Nana and Poppy's house to spend the night. Everytime before she goes inside she always looks for them through the hello, goodbye window. When inside they imagine many things are outside the window. She spends the day with her grandparents playing. When her parents come to pick her up they give their goodbyes inside, then when outside they look back through the hello, goodbye window and waves goodbye. (  ) amguess | Oct 27, 2009 | "The Hello, Goodbye Window" by Norton Juster and Chris Raschka is a book about a little girl visiting her grandparents. There is a window in her grandparent's home that she greets her them everytime she visits their home. The book uses very colorful illustrations to describe her experience. This book is all about the illustrations. Most children would love to read this book themselves because it is an easy read. I would recommend this to lower elementary readers. There are many different activities ideas for this book. Most children will want to talk about their own experiences with visiting a relatives home. You can have children draw pictures that reflect their own experiences when they travel and visit friends and relatives. brekimlov | Sep 20, 2009 | In this book there is a window, a window that almost seems to have magical powers. The little girls grandparents' kitchen window is the portal to all the sweet things of her grandparents house. It is where she says hello sometimes in silly ways like peek-a-boo, and goodbye sometimes in sad ways because she is saying goodbye for the night. This book is about a little girls perspective of her grandparents window and everything in between. Sometimes she even sits and looks out to see who is coming for tea, or what the weather will be. I used to live with my grandparents and the explaination of her grandparents is a sweet reminder of mine. My grandparents were always full of life and just plain silly sometimes. I would like to read this book for celebrations like grandparents day. I think we could discuss having or not having a grandparent and create our own hello, goodbye book as a class. By having each student contribute a page of their hello, goodbye or in between with their grandparents. If they do not have any they could talk about what they would like to do when they are grandparents just like the little girl in the book. ShaynaRivera1 | Sep 19, 2009 | The Hello, Goodbye Window is a book about a little girl who visits her Nanny and Poppy everyday and has a special window that everything important in her life happens in it, near it, or beyond it. I enjoyed this book because growing up at my "Mamaw" and "Papaws" house there was the window that looked out into the backyard and we used to sit in the window seal and watch everything that was going on outside, and if you were outside, you could look in and see what was going on in the house. In my classroom I would have a window that was made out of paper and have each of my kids come and draw a picture of what they see looking out of a window at their house and/or their grandparents house, or any house that they have seen something out of a window. I would also have a discussion about what each students has drew on the window. MandyMichelle | Sep 16, 2009 | 
PreS-Gr 1-The window in Nanna and Poppy's kitchen is no ordinary window-it is the place where love and magic happens. It's where the girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye. The first-person text is both simple and sophisticated, conjuring a perfectly child-centered world. Sentences such as "When I get tired I come in and take my nap and nothing happens until I get up" typify the girl's happy, imaginative world. While the language is bouncy and fun, it is the visual interpretation of this sweet story that sings. Using a bright rainbow palette of saturated color, Raschka's impressionistic, mixed-media illustrations portray a loving, mixed-race family. The artwork is at once lively and energetic, without crowding the story or the words on the page; the simple lines and squiggles of color suggest a child's own drawings, but this is the art of a masterful hand. Perfect for lap-sharing, this book will find favor with children and adults alike.-Angela J. Reynolds, Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Hillsboro, OR Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth) crafts a cozy portrait of a grandchild and her grandparents in this endearing book, illustrated in paintbox colors by Raschka (Be Boy Buzz). A curly haired girl-who dances with wiggly energy in Raschka's lush paintings-describes playful visits to her Nanna and Poppy, whose kitchen window provides the perfect venue to say hello and goodbye. "You can climb up on the flower barrel and tap," she says, "then duck down and they won't know who did it." Her grandparents welcome her into a sunlit, spacious kitchen filled with plants, where she doodles and listens to Poppy play "Oh, Susannah" on the harmonica. At night, the "Hello, Goodbye Window" functions as a mirror, and the girl jokes about being outside looking in: "Poppy says, `What are you doing out there? You come right in and have your dinner.' And I say, `But I'm here with you, Poppy,' and then he looks at me in his funny way." Juster departs from the over-the-top punning of his earlier works to create a gently humorous account of a family's conversations and games, all centered on the special window. Raschka warms the pages with glowing yellow, emerald, sapphire and golden brown, and he pictures the garden and trees in emphatic midsummer greens. The characters smile at one another with a doting twinkle in their eyes, and grandparents especially will be charmed by this relaxed account of how a child's visit occasions everyday magic. Ages 2-up. (Apr.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. A young girl takes us to her Nanna and Poppy's house to see a very special window. Most of the time her Nanna and Poppy are there in the kitchen so she can tap on the window, then hide, or they can wave at her when she arrives. We share her joy in the fun she has with Poppy's harmonica playing, watching reflections in the window at supper, saying goodnight to the stars with Nanna, looking through the window at the garden, playing outside. Sometimes through the window she sees people; sometimes her imagination fills it with other more amazing sights. Saying goodbye through the window when Mommy and Daddy pick her up is sad, but she looks forward to having her own "Hello, Goodbye Window" some day. Raschka turns the pages into scenes of innocent joy. His paints barely suggest objects as he applies intuitive areas of color, he then uses black lines here and there to define a face, a bicycle, a spouting hose. The personalities of the grandparents and their loving interactions with the narrator make this an engaging tale, while the artist's imagination forms something special from a bit of childhood. 2005, Michael Di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children, Ages 3 to 6.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0786809140, Hardcover)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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I liked the book and loved the pictures. The book made me think back to when I would visit my grandparents and the memories that we shared in their house.
I would read this before a holiday when most people are going to visit their family members. I would have them write in their journals of their favorite memories with their extended family.