The Way Home

by Judith Benét Richardson

Book Overview

Unable to convince her baby to leave the beach where they have spent the day playing, a mother elephant uses inventive means to draw her young one away to home and safety. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0027761452
• ISBN13: 9780027761450
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The Way Home

This book stars off with a beautiful picture of a mother elephant and her child playing at the beach. The two of them (Savi and her mother) spend the whole day at the beach, splashing in the water, eating bananas from the near-by banana tree, resting on the sand, and playing with Savi's sailboat. When the sun starts to set, Savi's mother says to Savi, "Now it's time to go home." Savi, like all little kids, doesn't listen and continues to play while her mother gets more and more annoyed. Finally Mother walks away into the shadows of the banana trees. At first Savi doesn't care, but then she begins to feel cold and hungry. That's when she sees the first banana. When she picks that one up, she sees another, then another. Savi follows this trail until she finds her mother waiting for her, and then runs to meet her mother. When Savi looks up she one last banana that she can't reach. When she asks her mother to pick it for her, her mother replies, "That banana is the moon. It will help us to see our way home."The thing that makes this book so special is the pictures. Each picture looks like a picture of a quilt or embroidery block. The stitching is beautiful. Most of it seems to be flat, but there is the occasional thing that isn't just to emphasize it. The bananas looked like they are made of plastic for example, and many of the leaves on the banana trees look as if they stand out. The pictures are very well done. The reason I don't give this book five stars is that I'm not overly fond of the story line.Loggie-log-log-log