Title: Window
Author and
Illustrator: Jeannie Baker
Publisher: Greenwillow
Books
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN Number: 978-0688089184
Amanda’s Rating: 4/5
Brief Summary: Window is a wordless picture book made up of a series of views through a window that follows a boy as he grows up. It
starts as his mother holds him as an infant while looking at the woods behind
their house and ends with the boy, who is now a father, holding his infant
child while looking out of the window.
The character grows up before our eyes as birthday cards mark milestone
birthdays and his hobbies, friends, and neighborhoods change.
Evaluation Statement:
This book captures the changes that occur as a child grows up
just by
looking at the scenes through his window.
It really portrays how much can change in the span of twenty years as a
person ages and how fast time flies. The
book also elicits feelings of nostalgia by showing that when he has a child of
his own, he moves back to the less developed countryside that reminds him of
his childhood.
Because the book dabbles in nostalgia, do you think the target audience is truly children or their parents? To what extent would children truly understand the passing of time over a lifetime that the book portrays?
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