Book Review: The Rainbow Bridge
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What Parents Should Know
Children and parents will enjoy this beautiful myth and its
luminous pictures.
Common Sense Media Review
Audrey Wood tries her deft hand at a creation tale of people
indigenous to her own Santa Barbara area. She tells a story of
events that, once put in motion, get out of hand through no
one's direct fault. Kids will enjoy that young people help the
goddess solve the problem and lead their families to the new
land. Life itself wins out through the goddess's love and the
children's belief in her.
Robert Florczak's paintings at first might be mistaken for digital art, but they are actually luminescent oil paintings. They have hyperrealistic elements that are arranged in such a way as to evoke a strange otherworldly quality that works well with the myth.
You can look for more work by Audrey Wood, with husband Don, in the classics The Napping House and King Bidgood's In the Bathtub, or by herself in Silly Sally or Rude Giants.
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