This book was very abstract and so were the illustrations. It's about the adventures of this pumpkin Simon and he just ends up failing and getting hurt over everything he does. It's a book written as a poem but it incorporates nursery rhymes. The illustrations are very detailed. There is a side bar and an illustration on the opposite page, showing what is happening in the story and the side bar shows how Simon feels or shows him doing what he is trying to accomplish. The pictures show diversity very well. There are no people in the book but all different animals and they are all getting along and working together. There are bears, elephants, tigers, birds, pigs, camels, and many more. There is also writing in different languages, saying "the end" or "bye". I thought it was a cute book and would be good for younger children because it had a great rhyme scheme, so it would be good to talk about rhyming words with and there are a very of nursery rhymes introduced into the text so it would be good for the children to recognize and use text to text connections. I didn't think the book flowed together very well, the text didn't connect to make a story well and it was hard to follow but as I read it again it came together a little better but still was in a dream world and hard to follow. The illustrations were fun to look at because there was so much detail included in each picture on the page.
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