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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
By Field, Eugene W.
- ISBN
- 978-0-37584-196-5 978-0-37594-596-0
- Publisher
- Schwartz & Wade
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2008
PreS-Gr 2 Potter's fanciful, artistic interpretation is ideal for this 19th-century poem about the wistful place between sleep and dreams. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod are portrayed as three young boys in matching green pajamas, wooden shoes, and red hats. They embark in their vessel, a large wooden shoe, and sail ."..on a river of crystal light, /Into a sea of dew." Sea and sky flow into one another and soon...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2008
Field's soothing lullaby of a poem (1889) is handsomely visualized via the classic device of translating the contents of a child's own room into the stuff of his dreams. Potter's appealingly dreamlike art features a moon-faced child and the three eponymous figures who are as like him—from pensive dark eyes to leaf-green pajamas—as peas in a pod. The "river of crystal light" that flows from the full moon is deep-sea turquoise against an indigo sk...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Potter's dreamlike art celebrates the mystery, love, and coziness of Field's soothing language and imagery. The pensive eyes of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
