Thursday, March 12, 2009

The Very Lonely Firefly - illustrator study


Author - Eric Carle
Illustrator - same
Publisher - Penguin Books, 1995.
Page #'s - 24
Rating - 4/5

The Very Lonely Firefly is a tale of a firefly who is looking for other fireflies. It keeps seeing lights, but they are just candles, flashlights, car headlights, or reflections of other animal's eyes. Finally the firefly finds a group of fireflies and is not lonely anymore.

The book has beautiful drawings with a very simple storyline. This book is for very young children like most of Eric Carle's work. In the end of the book, the firefly finds a group of fireflies and they actually light up by battery power. It is a very cool idea and I can see that feature alone really attracting children to the book.

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