Grainy pastel and washed-out color evoke the seashore’s bleached palette, while Greg’s reverent attention to the treasures he finds is the focus of every page.
) draws a startlingly real Greg in a series of tight closeups readers will feel they can reach out and touch him. Pair this quirky title with Karen Lynn Williams's Circles of Hope (Eerdmans, 2005).- Linda L.At the beach with his father, Greg strays from his beach umbrella, but stays calm and remembers the two things Dad told him: “Don’t go in the water, and don’t leave Sandy.” Sandy is a lion Greg has drawn in the sand, and because Greg hasn’t lifted the stick with which he has drawn Sandy’s long, long tail (circling, as he goes, a jellyfish, a horseshoe crab, and other beachside marvels), he’s able to retrace his steps to find his father, who’s delighted to see him. The endpapers depict a map charting Tadeo's travels. Dressed in khaki shorts and a blue-checked shirt, Tadeo, an appealing child with an innocent and expressive face, stands out as a larger-than-life figure in each imaginatively conceived picture. Safe and sound in her embrace, he discovers that "a hug is the most wonderful, perfect circle of all!" The striking collage illustrations, which show each distinctive landscape in deep jewel tones and a variety of interesting textures, enhance the story's sense of adventure. Finally, Tadeo finds his way home, landing in his mother's arms. However, none of these circles is quite right.
Hanging onto the end of his magic rope, he flies through the sky "in and out of clouds," "over mountains and lakes," and "across plains and forests." During his global adventure, he encounters a circle of giraffes on the African savanna, decorative golden spheres in a Turkish bazaar, a spinning Ferris wheel in London, and polar bears curled into furry balls in the Canadian Arctic. K-Gr 2-In a rural Central American village, Tadeo dreams of finding the perfect circle.
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