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This book is done entirely in silhouette, exploring the different shapes of objects. The characters of two children, a boy and a girl are in dialogue about shapes. The two exchange their thoughts on how different shapes and objects are from each other. They exchange ideas of how big and small some objects are.
Then the changing white silhouette turns into a real cloud and the cloud goes up into the blue sky (which is what the white "item" really becomes). The last page becomes the blue sky and the white silhouette shape which turned into a cloud. On the last page, the silhouette shape is now a real item. That is, a cloud. Then the book ends.
Printable version; In other projects ... The Jungle Book characters (11 P) M. Moomin characters (1 C, 6 P, 1 F) N. ... Category: Characters in children's literature.
Karlsson-on-the-Roof (Swedish: Karlsson på taket) is a character who features in a series of children's books by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.Lindgren may have borrowed the idea for the series from a similar story about Mr. O'Malley in the comic strip Barnaby (1942) by Crockett Johnson.
Based on a folktale, the story follows a mustachioed cap-selling peddler (unnamed in the book, he is known as Pezzo in the sequel, Circus Caps for Sale) who wears his entire stock of caps on his head. When the peddler goes to sleep under a tree, a troupe of monkeys steal all the caps, except his own checked cap, and put them on.
Madeline is a media franchise that originated as a series of children's books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. [1] The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film.
M. Clara Mackintosh; Johnny Mackintosh; Madeline; Maisy Mouse; Draco Malfoy; John Mandrake; Martine (character) Mary's Child; Matthew Looney; Max (book series) Max and Moritz
Love You Forever was listed fourth on the 2001 Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list for paperbacks at 6,970,000 copies (not including the 1,049,000 hardcover copies). [4] In 2001, Maria Shriver wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine: "I have yet to read this book through without crying. It says so much about the circle of life ...