All the World

All the World

Author: Liz Garton Scanlon

Illustrator: Marla Frazee
Type: Picture Book

Ages: K-4

Rating: 5 Stars

Summary: All the World  is a picture book that offers beautiful illustrations and a poem spanning the pages offering its readers different insights of how the world is viewed.

I loved this book! The pictures are beautifully drawn and the poem adds to the pages to give it a more definite description. What I liked about this book so much is that it is not only interesting to look at, but the author combines short lists of easy to understand words and phrases and turns them into something with a bigger meaning.

For example:

Spreading shadows, setting sun

Crickets, curtains, day is done

A fire takes away the chill

All the world can hold quite still

Also, for each set of words and phrases there is an illustration to go along with the specific text which could help young readers understand the pages.

I plan on working with upper elementary students, and even though the text in this book is so simple and may seem too easy for older students, I would still use it. The reason for this is that it can be a guide to help students write poetry and focus on something meaningful, like how they view the world and what parts of it stand out to them. Each student is going to have a different view point and could share with the class what is meaningful to them. It is important for each of us to take a step back from our busy lives and actually take time to realize how the world works around us.