Silly Lilly And The Four Seasons (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
A spirited little girl named Lilly takes young readers through the four seasons. A deceptively simple panel introduces the book, explaining in pictures how seasons happen as the earth rotates around the sun. Lilly joyously demonstrates a child's natural curiosity in each of the four seasons. The short, simple sentences make this an excellent choice for emerging readers. Of course, I also liked it because the creator, Agnes Rosenstiehl, lives in Paris. Silly Lilly is known and loved as Mimi Cracra in France. Another fine contribution to the Francophone comics tradition. Vive les BDs(bandes dessinees,the French word for comics)! Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons is a concept book where Lilly takes us through the Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and back to Spring again. While we are going through the different seasons, Lilly is showing us some of the activities we can do during those seasons: go to the park, go to the beach, eat apples, play in the snow and swing. Young students (at least where I live in Ohio) would be able to connect with the text because these are all things that they can do during that season. The graphics are very simple and are designed to help beginning readers learn how to read left to right. There is a maximum of four pictures per spread. Using red, yellow, blue, green black and brown, the pictures are very vibrant and child-like. Due to the simplistic text and the child-like graphics, I would recommend this book to very beginning readers. Students in preschool or kindergarten would be the primary students I would recommend this book to, although I think some first graders or students students just learning about graphic books would also benefit from this book. They would be able to learn from the text and the pictures alike. I do wish that the Fall graphics were outside to show more of fall. Apples are a good sign of fall, but I think picking apples would have been a little bit better.
What do You think about Silly Lilly And The Four Seasons (2008)?
I was underwhelmed by this book, but the comic book format did appeal to my beginning reader.
—uzzowilldestroy
