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PreS-Gr 4—In Window (1991) and Home (2004, both Greenwillow), Baker combined a concept, her signature collages, and a wordless format to underscore environmental issues. Mirror illuminates the common humanity beneath the surface of cultural differences. In a clever design, two sets of bound signatures face one another, the gatherings reversed from their normal location inside the spine; readers manipulate the two openings simultaneously. In parallel narratives, two boys awaken in the moonlight, accompany th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Two side-by-side wordless stories mirror each other in more ways than one. Pages attached to the front inside cover open to the left and show a boy in Sydney, Australia. On the opposite cover, pages open to the right and follow a boy in rural Morocco. A bilingual introduction notes that the boys' lives are different but also similar, and the nifty comparisons begin on the covers, as each boy looks out a window at the moon; a big city and a remote village, but the same moon. (And two very different animals appear in the pi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Pages attached to the front inside cover open to the left and show a boy in Sydney, Australia. On the opposite cover, pages...Log In or Sign Up to Read More