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	• Window Jeannie Baker Walker Books Ltd, 2002 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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My children LOVED this book! It has no words, but each page is a view from a boys window in his house, from birth to when he starts a family of his own! It shows the changes in the area where he lives. I loved having my children tell me from one page/view to the next what had changed looking through the window. It also lends itself to having children make up their own story and dialog for the characters seen.

a book depicting urban sprawl, an excellent lesson in pictur

This is an excellent wordless picture book that depicts urban sprawl from outside and inside a boys bedroom window. It is appropriate for children of all ages and can prompt some great discussions on environmental topics. It is poinant without any preachiness. This would be an excellent book to introduce an environmental education lesson!!!!

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Shows you how powerful pictures can be. Thought provoking!!

Windows is an amazing text free picture book that manages to say it all. Extremely relevant to the present times, Baker uses collage to view a boys life through a window. He grows up in the country and as he becomes older the scenary changes from his own house to a developed city. At age 20 he gets married and decides to move back into the country. In the last window we see the grown man with a child of his own and a sign across the road reading house blocks for sale. Very moving!!

Look through my window

Jeannie Baker's pictures are beautifully done, each one an original collage of a subtly changing landscape. The story is a little bleak, however, and kids don't seem to enjoy realizing that their world, at first so lovely, is bound to become a slum and an overcrowded prison of tormented souls. Why so ugly, Miss Baker? When you look through your window, do you just see the grimy side of life? Cheer up, and if you can't cheer up, maybe you could write some books for adults, who have the forebearance to hear your wailings of doom.

What's great about the book is the animation of the child, who grows up to be a man, and yet he plunges himself into ruin by siring a hostage to fortune. The story has a sense of balance which approaches the Shakespearean but, as I say, may be too heavy for most kids. Exposure to WINDOW will cause your children to grow up into neo-Goths, not that that is such a bad thing.

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A Story Without Word

Window was an absolutely amazing! I just read it today; never did I know a picture book could be so amazing. It's about this kid who starts off as a baby and as he gets older he sees how the world around him is changing. Changing for the worst. The book basically emphasizes how humans can effect the world in such a short time. It was a very, somewhat, moving story. Jeannie really did a good job with this book. This book puts true meaning to that saying "pictures are worth 1000 words."

"The effect human beings have on the landscape around them is the theme of Baker's most recent tour de force....The artist's multimedia collage constructions are, as ever, fascinating in their realistic detail and powerfully convey the dramatic message.."--Horn Book.

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