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Loading... Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter (edition 2017)by Kenard Pak (Author), Kenard Pak (Illustrator)
Work InformationGoodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenard Pak
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Pak's illustrations are bright and evocative. The prose focuses not simply on an individual season, but on the transition between seasons. The narrative pattern is very simple and repetitve, but highlights all there is to observe outdoors. Two children - presumably the girl from Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn and her brother - walk through their neighborhood and town, greetings the flora, fauna and natural forces around them, and being greeted in return. Everyone and everything, from the birds to the chrysanthemums, the clouds to the sky, is changing with the seasonal shift, as autumn departs and winter comes in... Much as with its predecessor, I found that I enjoyed author/illustrator Kenard Pak's artwork in Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter far more than I did his text. The back-and-forth exchanges between the children and the natural world felt stilted and formulaic, rather than fresh and natural, and I found myself thinking, much as I did with Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn, that this would have made an excellent wordless picture-book. There is nothing covered in the text that isn't more than adequately depicted in the artwork. And what beautiful artwork it is! It reminds me a bit of Jon Klassen in style, but with a more colorful palette. Recommended to fans of Kenard Pak's artwork, and to anyone looking for visually appealing picture-books about the changing of the seasons. no reviews | add a review
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