Reviews for The Day the Picture Man Came

The average rating for The Day the Picture Man Came based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-11-05 00:00:00 Marck Binette In The Day the Picture Man Came, we meet Emily Howard. Emily is a spunky little girl who lives in the mountains of Georgia. Emily seems to be having just a terrible day. Emily can�t understand why her sister is mad about her trying on a bonnet, which their goat eventually ate. She is upset about the dogs spilling her bottle of freckle remover, and as the cherry on the sundae, she has been sent out to the fields to pick blackberries. Emily hates being in the fields because she is always getting stung by bees. Just when Emily thinks that her day can�t get better, Cecil Bramlett, a traveling photographer arrives at the family�s home and offers to take a family portrait. What is ensues is utter chaos as the family attempts to include all of the animals in the portrait. Young children will absolutely love this story. They will easily be hooked by Emily�s spunk and charisma. Faye Gibbons did a wonderful job of depicting the time period that the setting of the story takes place in. However, without the illustrations, I think that children would have a harder time identifying the time period of the story. Sherry Meidell, the illustrator, did a fabulous job creating old time cameras, as well as with the clothing that the family wore throughout the story. I was amused with this book from the time I picked it up till I turned the last page. I would read this picture book to first through fourth graders.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-01-22 00:00:00 Kim Anderson This book was extremely interesting. Since it says poetry of motion, I was thinking about things that move, such as cars, energy, and things like this. While it is about things that move, it is not in the sense that most people would think. The poems are quite funny and talk about weird things that have motion, such as a jump rope, rubber band, pencil sharpener, washing machine, wind chimes, puppets, etc. I think this would be a fun book to use to introduce poetry as well because these poems are thinking outside the box. Another great thing that these poems did was use onomatopoeia throughout them, such as splish, squish, zip, whoosh, etc, so this would be great to use to introduce what those are to a group of students.