Sun Flower LionReview posted October 21, 2021.
Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins), 2020. 32 pages.
Review written October 3, 2020, from a library book
Starred Review
This is a brilliant book for very young children or very beginning readers. The language is simple. The pictures are simple. But it’s got patterns and a progression.
We’ve got four things – the sun, a flower, and a lion, that are all drawn with the same basic pattern. We’ve also got six chapters. Each chapter is just one spread or a spread-and-a-half.
Here are the words for the first chapter:
This is the sun.
Can you see it?
The sun is in the sky.
It is shining.
It is as bright as a flower.
In the next chapter, we meet the flower, and then the lion.
My favorite page is this one:
The lion runs home.
Can you see him?
No, you can’t.
He is running too fast.
And it all ends with him cozy and back with his family.
Amazing that Kevin Henkes can tell a satisfying story with so few words – and so few shapes.