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THE TWINS' BLANKET

twins' blanket
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Yum
Author's First Name: 
Hyewon
Publisher: 
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 
2011
2013 Nomination (not yet selected): 

“Look-alike” twins have shared everything since before they were born. Now their blanket is too small to cover both. The girls help their mother to make two new blankets. Colorful mixed-media illustrations are set against ample white space, and they work economically with the spare text to create a lovely story about learning not to share. Up to Seven. Rachel Wood

The twins have always shared their bed and blanket, but now it is time for something new. Colorful mixed-media illustrations set against ample white space and ingenious use of the gutter illustrate this story of growing up separate but the same.

Comments

Meeting Notes September

by ladamson - 09/29/2011 - 11:23am
Meeting Notes September 23
 
Positive Comments:
  • The endpapers and fabric designs for the blankets are effective.
  • Gutters dividing the twins with effective white space behind the figures works for the illustrations.
  • Even if neither a twin nor a sibling, one can enjoy the story.
  • The expressive faces reveal character.
  • Using the old blankets in the new blanket is complementary to the text and solves the problem appropriately.
Concerns:
  • Having the twins on the same side of a page in at least one of the pictures would be especially satisfying.