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When I Listen to Silence Kindle Edition
When a child is asked to “Please, be quiet!” they sit silent … and their imagination sweeps them away on a breathtaking journey.
Through the window, the child can hear the trees breathe and watches them sway back and forth as they begin to dance. Then bears join in, accompanied by the child on their drum, making so much noise they wake up a dragon! The dragon’s smoky breath fills the sky, and the wind forms a knight on a steed that gallops through the stars. The child’s adventure continues, as one wonderful flight of fancy leads to the next, from pirates to mermaids to whales, until they find themselves sitting silent once again among the trees.
Jean E. Pendziwol has written a charming story-poem that looks at silence and stillness as an opportunity for the imagination and creativity to flourish. Carmen Mok’s magical illustrations flow from one spread to the next like animation, in a palette inspired by vintage printmaking.
Key Text Features
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Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
- Reading age3 - 6 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade levelPreschool - 1
- PublisherGroundwood Books
- Publication dateApril 1, 2022
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Editorial Reviews
Review
Jean E. Pendziwol's beguiling circular story-poem celebrates the powerful delights of the imagination.
― Canadian Children’s Book NewsThe illustrations by Carmen Mak are soft and dark yet colourful all at once, giving an imaginative, dreamy vibe that is the perfect match for the story. This story … helps to show how silence can be a positive thing, as it allows them the opportunity to dream up anything.
― Miramichi ReaderA beautiful ode to imagination and the magic of silence.
― BooklistSilence and stillness allows kids' imaginations to run wild.
― CBC BooksFairy-tale flashes of color dart across this bubbly story that celebrates being alone with one’s own thoughts and dreams.
― Foreword ReviewsWhen I Listen to Silence is a book that lets both parents and kids feel seen.
― Quill & QuirePendziwol’s lilting, lyrical text … shows that sometimes a moment of quiet freedom can be a wonderful gift to a child’s imagination.
― Quill & QuireYoung readers can enjoy this small adventure either or on their own or in a group setting.
― CM: Canadian Review of MaterialsReview
Praise for author Jean E. Pendziwol and illustrator Carmen Mok for When I Listen to Silence:
"Fairy-tale flashes of color dart across this bubbly story that celebrates being alone with one’s own thoughts and dreams." — Foreword Reviews
"Pendziwol’s lilting, lyrical text … shows that sometimes a moment of quiet freedom can be a wonderful gift to a child’s imagination." — Quill & Quire
"A beautiful ode to imagination and the magic of silence." — Booklist
"Young readers can enjoy this small adventure either or on their own or in a group setting." — CM: Canadian Review of Materials
About the Author
CARMEN MOK is a studio-art graduate of the University of Waterloo and a craft and design graduate of Sheridan College. She has illustrated Percy's Museum by Sara O'Leary, Violet Shrink by Christine Baldacchino and Grandmother’s Visit by Betty Quan, an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor title. Carmen’s other noteworthy books include A Stopwatch from Grampa by Loretta Garbutt, Cone Cat by Sarah Howden and Tough Like Mum by Lana Button. She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.
JEAN E. PENDZIWOL’S highly acclaimed picture books include When I Listen to Silence, illustrated by Carmen Mok; I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree, illustrated by Nathalie Dion; Me and You and the Red Canoe, illustrated by Phil; and Once Upon a Northern Night, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault (finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award). She lives in Northwestern Ontario on the shores of Lake Superior.
Product details
- ASIN : B09TPY4PVP
- Publisher : Groundwood Books (April 1, 2022)
- Publication date : April 1, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 32386 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Not enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Not Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 40 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,762,445 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #957 in Children's Stories About Toys
- #6,240 in Children's Imagination & Play Fiction
- #15,657 in Children's Sword & Sorcery Fantasy Books
- Customer Reviews:
About the authors
Jean E. Pendziwol is an award winning author of books for adults and children. Her debut novel "The Lightkeeper's Daughters" was a Globe and Mail bestseller, a BBC Radio Two Book Club selection, winner of the Northern Lit Award for Fiction (Ontario), and shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown. Her work for childrens has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the 2014 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award and the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award. Her children’s books include the critically acclaimed and best-selling "No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons)" which continues to be used as a valuable resource for teaching fire safety. Her most recent publication "Skating Wild on an Inland Sea" (illus. Todd Stewart) is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection. She lives in the shadow of the Nor’Wester Mountains near Lake Superior in Canada and draws inspiration for her stories from the rich history, culture and geography of the northern Ontario.
Jean E's works for kids is represented by Olga Filina of 5 Otter Literary
Her adult work is represented by Jenny Bent of The Bent Agency.
Carmen Mok is an award-winning illustrator with prior experience in product design, hand-lettering and graphic design. After studying studio art at University of Waterloo and design at Sheridan College, she decided to dedicate herself to children’s illustration. She is the illustrator of Grandmother’s Visit, written by Betty Quan, and Waiting for Sophie, written by Sarah Ellis. Grandmother’s Visit was selected as the picture book honor title of the 2018-2019 Asian/Pacific American Award, and made the 2019 short list for the IODE Ontario Jean Throop Book Award. Carmen received the SCBWI Canada East People’s Choice Award for Illustration in 2017 and the Exceptional Portfolio Award and the Storyteller Award in 2018. Her work was featured in the SCBWI Canada East Art Show in 2016 and 2017 and the 2018 CANSCAIP Art Show and Illustrator Art Exhibit in Toronto. Carmen lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
For publishing inquiries please contact her agent Emily van Beek from Folio Jr.
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