Jun 8, 2016
More-igami by Dori Kleber, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Candlewick Press, May 2016). All rights reserved.
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More-igami by Dori Kleber, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Candlewick Press, May 2016). All rights reserved.
More-igami by Dori Kleber. Illustrated by G. Brian Karas.
From the beautiful origami paper endpapers to the spreads made on folded paper, the design of this book is impressive. The title page where Joey is folding the giant green background paper is just stunning. The fact that all of the pages containing smaller images have folds as well is perfect. In some places, the folds are used to separate images which blends seemlessly. The folds in the background paper stop when we see the first crane and don’t reappear until Joey rediscovers his folding mojo on the napkins. I can’t get over that folding detail.
The story champions persistence (practice and patience!) but maybe oversimplifies the concept of origami a bit. Origami is hard and sometimes very frustrating for kiddos. A lot of spacial reasoning is required to simply execute the instructions, let alone well. This is a good supplement for an origami unit, but the intended audience for the simple story is likely too young to even be able to figure out the simple ladybug in the back.