I See and See

by Ted Lewin

Overview

An observant boy sees many things on his way home from school. A dog, a truck, a bird, a butterfly. . . these ordinary urban experiences become artistic inspiration for the boy. When he gets home, he draws all of the things he saw. Now he can see them at home, too!

 Caldecott Honor medalist Ted Lewin’s magnificent, lifelike paintings transform the boy’s everyday walk into an enchanting exploration of his surroundings. Emerging readers will like the simple, repetitive text, and will challenge themselves to see what the boy sees—and more.
An I Like to Read® book. Guided Reading Level B.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823435975
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	02/15/2016
Series:	I Like to Read Series
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	47 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Ted Lewin's career as an artist began with illustrations for adventure magazines, but over the last thirty-five years he has devoted all of his time to writing and illustrating children's books. Look!, his first I Like to Read® book, won the Correll Book Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Informational Text. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Editorial Reviews

"Lewin's charming, realistic watercolors incorporate details with evocative touches. . . . Basic vocabulary and word repetition (the boy uses truck to describe various heavy-duty vehicles) encourage recognition and reading confidence. Much here will ring familiar to the younger kids and new readers alike."—Booklist
 
"success is almost guaranteed for struggling readers."—Kirkus Reviews
 
"Simple repetitive text and large detailed pictures make this a perfect choice for the very youngest readers and may encourage them to take artistic inspiration from the world they see as the young narrator does."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

01/01/2016
PreS-Gr 1—In this new entry in the "I Like to Read" series, a young boy looks closely at the world around him. A double-page close-up, accompanied by a simple sentence in large type, depicts each object the child sees. A huge side-view image of a bulldog fills the opening spread along with the sentence "I see a dog." Large illustrations of different kinds of trucks and flowers, a man working in the trees, a bird, and even a carousel follow. Each time, the words I see appear. On the copyright pages preceding the text, the boy emerges from three pencil sketches into full Technicolor, as if to illustrate that really seeing brings in the world in a whole new way. Lewin's exquisite impressionistic illustrations, done in pencil, liquid mask, and his signature watercolors, revealing every doggy drool and claw, tire tread and truck part, flower petal, bird feather, and details on a butterfly's wings invite just such close scrutiny. Simple repetitive text and large detailed pictures make this a perfect choice for the very youngest readers and may encourage them to take artistic inspiration from the world they see as the young narrator does. Adults can extend the experience by helping little ones name the kinds of trucks, dog, bird, type of tools, etc. VERDICT For more close observation enjoyment, pair this beautiful offering with Lewin's Look! (Holiday House, 2014).—Marianne Saccardi, Children's Literature Consultant, Greenwich, CT

School Library Journal

2015-11-17
The latest entry in the I Like to Read series involves very little reading. With just eight words repeated again and again, one short sentence per spread, and only 24 pages, success is almost guaranteed for struggling readers. The word "see" appears 12 times and without competition from other words that start with "s." The picture-book trim size, as opposed to the standard early-reader format, is also nicely nonthreatening. The problem is that struggling readers are often smart enough to know that this isn't a real story. There is no plot. What the boy sees seems arbitrary and disconnected—a dog, three different trucks, flowers, an arborist ("a man" in a tree with a saw), a butterfly, a bird, a merry-go-round. There is no sense of neighborhood or place. Most reluctant new readers will know that the trucks are particular types—bulldozers, a cement truck, a street sweeper—but they are not challenged with this specific vocabulary. Lewin's charming pencil-and-watercolor illustrations and the winsome African-American boy who draws what he has seen at the end of the book rescue it from mediocrity. Teachers will want to point out that the drawings were made by the child who served as Lewin's model before assigning the inevitable task to "make a book about what you see." A useful instructional addition for beginning readers who need to experience success. (Picture book/early reader. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews