Reviews for Great Day to Play!: Follow the Reader Level 1

The average rating for Great Day to Play!: Follow the Reader Level 1 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-18 00:00:00 Yoshio Takei Now there is nothing even remotely difficult or in any manner inherently philosophical or issue-heavy to be gleaned from L.M. Montgomery's presented text, from her to and for my senses oh so amazingly brilliant The Way to Slumbertown (and thus, if you are looking for lyricism of intensity and pondering heaviness, you should most definitely be looking elsewhere). However and yes definitely, The Way to Slumbertown truly does indeed shiningly represent both a five star read and a (personal) "favourites" shelving, as it glowingly and sweetly features a delightfully simple, easy to understand, utterly and tenderly caressing, lovingly eternally lyrical and gentle lullaby song (and one that you cannot help singing and humming to yourself, even if there is no music score and melody shown with it). Accompanied by Rachel Bédard's etherial, magical illustrations (which combine both imagination and reality and use white and blue hues to augment and enhance the author's sense of nighttime magic), The Way to Slumbertown presents a perfectly enchanting marriage of text and image, exquisite, poetic, with the perhaps standard, but very astute and true message that for young children, the surest and safest passage to the world of dreams, to Slumbertown, is as L.M. Montgomery so eloquently and tenderly states, by the way of a mother's arms and a mother's rocking chair. Highly recommended (and for both children and adults at that, especially for those of you who consider themselves L.M. Montgomery fans and would like to try a simply marvellous, spectacular, heart-warming picture book adaptation of one of the latter's poems, but with the caveat that The Way to Slumbertown seems to be currently out of print and is thus not always that easy to obtain for purchase).

Review # 2 was written on 2020-08-09 00:00:00 Rodney Reynaldo A sweet and gently lulling bedtime poem from the great L.M. Montgomery, author of such Canadian classics as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon , is paired with lovely artwork from Quebec artist Rachel Bédard in this beautiful picture-book. The simple verse here describes the manner in which children reach the land of dreams, while the luminous artwork depicts numerous magical vistas... Although I am a long-time fan of Montgomery's work, and have read practically everything she published (in book form) multiple times, The Way to Slumbertown is the first of her poems I have approached, and the first picture-book I have encountered from her pen. On the whole I quite liked it, finding it peaceful and soothing, in a way entirely appropriate for its purpose. The accompanying artwork from Bédard is well-suited to the tone here, with an abundance of white and blue tones that accentuate the sleepy, nighttime feeling. I would be interested to see more of Montgomery's poetry, as well as Bédard's artwork. For the former, there appear to be some collections, but it doesn't look as if the artist has illustrated any other books, which is a pity. Recommended to anyone looking for quiet, lulling bedtime book for younger children.