The Blue Thing

By Daniel Pinkwater

Book Overview

A small blue seed grows so big that it fills up all the space above the earth. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130778184
• ISBN13: 9780130778185
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

The Sky's the Limit!

"The Blue Thing" has the powerful appeal of archetypal tales with names like "How the Rhino Got Its Horn," but it relies more on visuals than text. Like many of the best children's books, it features clear, simple sentences and unadorned illustrations. It all beings with a blue "thing" -- a "very small" round ball-shaped thing set against line drawings of a river and mountains. The blue thing's identity is a mystery, and for a long time it just stays hidden. Even when a frog and a wolf hop/walk right by it, and "nobody knew it was there." After the winter snows, however, that blue thing has a tremendous growth streak! In a series of beautiful line drawings, we see it grow larger by leaps and bounds: As big as that frog and wolf, then as big as a cow, a tree, a house, a town, and a mountain, "and it was getting bigger." "Everyone could seee it, and everyone wonderer what it was." IT's not until that last page that your young audience (young toddler throughearly elemenatary) can see what that little blue thing grew into (even though the word "sky" is never mentioned--only pictured). Pinkwater's typical understated words close this deceptively simple, but emormously clever book: "And it is still there. You can go and see for yourself.