Little Black Crow
Author: Raschka, Chris
ISBN: 9780689846014
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Year First Published: 2010
Pages: 40
Dimensions: 10 inches x 9 inches x 0.4 inches
Format: Hardback
Description:
Picture a sky
as big as all outdoors,
a fence disappearing over a hill,
a crow then appearing,
a boy looking up,
watching, wondering.
Not much more than a moment
but the meeting
lofts a rush of childhood questions—
27 in all—inspiring answers
as big as all outdoors.
Caldecott medalist Chris Raschka,
himself the boy perhaps,
has created a book in the sparest language
against the simplest setting,
to inspire in any young listener
the wonder of wondering.
ISBN: 9780689846014
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Year First Published: 2010
Pages: 40
Dimensions: 10 inches x 9 inches x 0.4 inches
Format: Hardback
Description:
Picture a sky
as big as all outdoors,
a fence disappearing over a hill,
a crow then appearing,
a boy looking up,
watching, wondering.
Not much more than a moment
but the meeting
lofts a rush of childhood questions—
27 in all—inspiring answers
as big as all outdoors.
Caldecott medalist Chris Raschka,
himself the boy perhaps,
has created a book in the sparest language
against the simplest setting,
to inspire in any young listener
the wonder of wondering.
