My America

By Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Book Overview

Have you seen my country? Seen my magic skies? Seen my mighty waters? Have you seen my land? Have you seen my country? Seen my wings abound? Seen my water creatures? Seen my beasts and fowl? Have you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060791047
• ISBN13: 9780060791049
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: HarperColl
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

United Artists

The poet asks a series of questions of the reader, drawing attention to different, worthy aspects of America. These questions, all starting with the words, "Have you seen..." round out into a lovely poem that is an exploration of the beauty of our country and diversity of our people. The two artists combine in an unusual pictorial duet painting alternating double-page spreads. For example, for the line asking, "Seen my beasts and fowl?" Ashley Bryan has a double-page spread illustrating one word, "beasts." For this one powerful word, he paints a series of arches rising up the illustration. He fills these arches with various, cheerful, stylized animals in bright hues. Children will enjoy identifying the animals. On the next spread, Jan Spivey Gilchrist paints an evocative watercolor of wild geese flying in formation across a full moon. Two very different, distinctive styles meld into one beautiful whole picture book.