Flamboyan

by Arnold Adoff and Karen Barbour

Book Overview

On a small green island in the blue Caribbean Sea, a girl is born with hair the color of the flame red blossoms of the Flamboyan tree; thus, she is named Flamboyan. Through the years she wishes for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152284044
• ISBN13: 9780152284046
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 11.4" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The most beautiful children's book I know. A must for girls

It's funny to see the subject given for this book as Flight-Fiction because that is so incidental to what this beautiful book is about. When I saw this book I knew I had to get a copy for my daughter and I would love to buy one for every young girl and newborn baby girl I know. That may sound sexist, but the reason I love this book so much is that it's message is of liberation, imagination, endless possibilities and beauty in the everyday. The pictures are stunning, the language and style is music (watch for the pause icons as well as the punctuation - it reads much better if you count a beat whenever the little symbol appears.) In a world of Barbies and Sailor Moons, this book offers a much more compelling image of what a young girl can aspire to -- anything. Oh, one other thing - this is the only kid's book I know that uses words I didn't know and named animals and plants I had never heard of. Something I look for in a book - that it holds my attention and teaches me something as well. Also one of the few children's books that I read to my wife when we are alone.