Picture Book Monday: If Rocks Could Sing
I found one surpassingly cool picture book today: Leslie McGuirk's If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet, which is entirely illustrated with photos of ocean-shaped rocks that McGuirk found on the Florida beach near her home. Not just rocks shaped like letters, although that's cool enough - how often do you find a rock shaped like a K? - but also rocks shaped like the objects the letters stand for: E is a rock like an elephant's head, for instance. Or O stands for ouch! - accompanied by a picture of a rock that looks like a face grimacing in pain.
And she has a unique answer to the X problem. Rather than using X-ray or xylophone, she has X stand for XOXO, and illustrates it with a rock shaped like an embracing couple - rather like a natural sculpture of Klimt's The Kiss.
The book is cute, but most of all I love to imagine the author beach-combing, walking softly along the sand to look for rocks washed into sculptures by the waves.
And she has a unique answer to the X problem. Rather than using X-ray or xylophone, she has X stand for XOXO, and illustrates it with a rock shaped like an embracing couple - rather like a natural sculpture of Klimt's The Kiss.
The book is cute, but most of all I love to imagine the author beach-combing, walking softly along the sand to look for rocks washed into sculptures by the waves.