Author: Kate Bernheimer
Illustrator: Nicoletta Ceccoli
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books, New York
Copyright: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-375-83606-0
Summary: "Children come to visit a little girl who lives alone inside a castle,
which is housed inside of a museum."
Illustrations are rendered in acrylic paint, clay models, photography and digital media.
Accelerated Reader Book, reading level 2.8
You know the saying, "don't judge a book by it's cover"? Well, I do try to heed this most of the time, but there are just times where I am drawn to a book just by what I see on the cover. This happens to be one of those books. The cover just drew me in with the solemn looking faces on the front, the girl in the tower, the colors, the font used for the title.
I truly delighted in the illustrations of this book Just very unusual, soft, whimsical and full of movement. The girl in the castle, her hair appears to be blowing in the wind. There are funny little creatures hanging from the ceiling and flying about the castle. Buttons, balls, dice speckled here and there throughout the book.
The story is magical, imaginative and reads well. "There is even a tower, the girl's favorite place. Inside that tower she sits. And inside that tower, at night she dreams. What does she dream of, the girl in the castle inside the museum?" How would you like to live in a castle? {forever} how would you feel, maybe lonely sometimes? the little girl in the castle feels lonely, but at the end of the book she has figured out a way to not be so lonely anymore.
I have checked this book out from the library a couple of times to read to my kids. My son, 4 1/2 yrs, really likes this book. I asked him why he likes it, and he said, "because it's really pretty", I think there are other reasons that he just didn't voice so well. My 3 yr old daughter enjoys the book as well.
On a scale of 1-10, I will give this one a 10. I enjoyed the easy to read story and I think it would be a good jumping off point for an imaginative conversation with a child.
Review by Christy F. @ PrincessPinkk's Ponderings.
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