Reviews for We'll All Go Sailing

The average rating for We'll All Go Sailing based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-28 00:00:00 Rigoberto Rico Note: "Date I finished..." = "Date added..." This was the first of our three "We'll All Go..." books, published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside with illustrations by Kim LaFave. Someone at F&W decided to add the "paper engineering" feature ' on each page, the verse asks the question "And what will see, In the sea, we three?" (Each sea being a different colour...) and the reader has to lift a flap to discover with kind of creatures were seen there. When you were sailing with F&W it was often hard to tell who the captain of the boat was, and you had to be prepared to for sudden course changes. This was a case in point. Days before the book was supposed to go to print, Kim LaFave sent F&W an "illustrator's photo" showing himself and his family with against an appropriately aquatic backdrop. F&W already had a file of photos of us from previous books, but when they saw Kim's photo they decided that they needed ' by Friday ' a photo of Maggee, Jesse and me in a similar setting. We didn't and don't live by the sea and didn't and don't own any maritime gear. We scrambled about and borrowed life-jackets and paddles and got a friend to take a picture of us against a sea-blue wall in our living room.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-05 00:00:00 Helen Robinson This is a wonderful book with so much in it for a child to discover over successive readings that they will no doubt demand. First of all it introduces colours. The three characters explore the sea of many different colours to see what they can find there. Each page has a half-page flap that reveals some creature underneath. The poetic text is repetitive so it won't be long before your early reader is reading along with you. There are little subplots in the illustrations that children discover all by themselves. This is a very engaging book. Highly recommended.