When the vegetation was still rich in this part of the world… our little toddler playing with his cat at age two while momma dries the laundry out in the sun We literally see this boy grow up before our eyes, thanks to Baker’s keen eye for detail. Through this windowsill, we are allowed to take a small peek into this boy’s life: the teddy bear phase he must have had when he was two, his Superman phase at age four, his fascination with dinosaurs at age six, his mandatory rocket-ship phase at ten which shifted into a helicopter mania (not to mention slingshots) at twelve, until he reaches twenty-four years old. Over and above the exponential change in the environment as witnessed through looking out this window through the years, I would like to highlight Baker’s intuitive sense of how a young boy grows up from toddlerhood to middle-school age, to teenage years and finally into adulthood. Click on the image to be taken to the websource, Jeannie Bakers Website. I love the details included in the very first page of the wordless narrative: This image is copyrighted by Jeannie Baker. Each of the page likewise shows 2-year intervals so we see an infant who is being carried by his mother in the first page go through his developmental milestones every two years. As the title indicates, the entire wordless narrative shows a window for every page, with someone from the inside looking out. We have already done a feature of her Mirror here, now we do a 2-in-1 Feature of two of her famous works for our theme this March-April: “When Words are not Enough: A Wordless Picture Book Special.”

One of my really great discoveries for our Bimonthly theme apart from Fernando Krahn (whose works we reviewed here, here, and here) and Suzy Lee (whose wordless picture books we reviewed in a 3-in-1 here) is Jeannie Baker, an Australian Book Artist who uses collages in her picture books. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.

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