Children’s Book Review: Seymour & Henry
July 27, 2009 by Karlynn Johnston
Filed under Book Nook
This book is a delightful romp with two little patchwork ducklings going on a tiny adventure as soon as Mommy duck asks them to go home. They scamper “pit-a-pat”, over and under logs, around rocks, through tall grass and hide from Mommy. They wait….and wait….for Mommy to come and find them… but the rain chases them back to Mommy duck. The illustrations are gorgeous, the fact that the duck are all portrayed as sewn patchwork animals with little stitches showing here and there adds to the cute factor.
Reading level: ages 2-4
Page Count: 32 pages
Publisher: Candlewick (Feb 10 2009)
What to expect: adorable little ducks having a tame adventure running away from their mommy, cute,adorable and not the least bit scary for the younger set.
Publisher’s synopsis: Two adventurous ducklings get a little too carried away in a tale of a mother-and-ducky reunion that toddlers are sure to appreciate.
Seymour and Henry love to play and can’t wait to jump in the pond. Plop! But when it’s time to go home, pit-a-pat, they run away, scampering farther and farther from their mother. Now it’s starting to rain, and Mommy is nowhere to be seen. “QUACK!” Can they find their way back? And what will their mommy do then? With her trademark soft pastels, Kim Lewis brings to life an endearing pair of toy ducklings and an ever-patient mom.
About the Author: From her website: Kim Lewis grew up in a sleepy suburb of the city of Montreal, in Canada. As a child, she always wished she’d been brought up on a farm. Her favourite things from an early age were drawing and making things. She still remembers her mother despairing over the constant request for materials and the subsequent art mess everywhere.
Kim did a Fine Art degree in Montreal, and then came to Hornsey College of Art in London to do postgraduate printmaking. She says she met some British people at university in Montreal and liked them so much that she wanted to come to the country where there were lots more of them. From the minute she arrived in England Kim says she felt completely at home. After Kim met her husband, Flea, at art school, they moved to Northumberland to live and work on a hill farm. Something about the landscape reminded her of home. Flea and Kim brought up their two children on the farm, along with the 650 blackface ewes, 100 suckler cows, twelve hens, six border collies and two cats. She says she will never leave or cease to love the countryside in Northumberland.
Our Rating: 4 out of 5
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