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Pinwheel
Turn the wheel and watch each scene transform with spinning, eye-catching designs! Award-winning artist Salina Yoon's spectacular display of kinetic art immerses readers in a colorful, poetic journey. From a balloon-filled sky to the deep blue sea, Pinwheel reminds readers of the beauty all around them. Let the fun begin with every spin!
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First published April 16, 2013
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About the author
Salina Yoon
246 books270 followersSalina Yoon is an award-winning author/illustrator of over 150 books for children, including Penguin and Pinecone, Penguin on Vacation, Penguin in Love, Penguin and Pumpkin, Penguin's Big Adventure, Found, and Stormy Night.
Her latest book, Be a Friend, was a Winter 2015-2016 Kids' Indie Next Pick. Among her other awards are a Scholastic Teachers Top 10 Picture Book for Penguin's Big Adventure, and an NPR Best Book and 2014 SCIBA Book Award for Best Picture Book for Found. (complete list is on the website ABOUT page)
She studied art and design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and now lives in San Diego with her family.
www.salinayoon.com
Her latest book, Be a Friend, was a Winter 2015-2016 Kids' Indie Next Pick. Among her other awards are a Scholastic Teachers Top 10 Picture Book for Penguin's Big Adventure, and an NPR Best Book and 2014 SCIBA Book Award for Best Picture Book for Found. (complete list is on the website ABOUT page)
She studied art and design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and now lives in San Diego with her family.
www.salinayoon.com
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August 11, 2021
With a spin of the "wheel" the image changes. The colors are bold and beautiful and the pictures draw you into the exciting world around us. This would be a great compare/contrast book for the same places in reality. I bought this book because Salina Yoon is this year's summer reading program illustrator for TAILS and TALES! (2021) Unfortunately, this book is too special to circulate but I will be able to use it in story time! The hot air balloon and the fireworks are especially wonderful because we see those here in Seymour!
April 23, 2013
Beautiful, mesmerizing, visually stimulating...breakable. For adults and very careful toddlers :-)
May 2, 2013
Alice loves this book. I think it is pointless. Three stars is a compromise. She broke the kite page before I even saw the book, so maybe that one page was really cool.
May 21, 2013
Mesmerizing book. not just pinwheels changing the pictures, but a kite flies in the air in a figure eight and a carousel horse goes up and down. Wonderful. Wish it were bigger for storytime!
October 19, 2013
This is a fantastic little boardbook.
April 13, 2018
So. Very. Pretty. I’m sure a baby would rip this to pieces in no time, but the spinning things (and other illustrations) are gorgeous.
April 5, 2013
Pinwheel is a beautiful book that both Sierra (3) and Connor (5) were equally enamored with. Each page has a different method of turning a pinwheel and seeing shapes, designs and colors shift and move. You'll see a train with a beautiful floral design that looks like it's shifting and getting smaller and smaller in the center. Another page has a school of fish following a giant octopus and the colors (which strongly reminded me of Rainbow Fish) shift and change making it look like they are swimming. You'll also see a circus wheel spinning, a kite dancing through the sky and watch the flame in a hot air balloon move and the stars spinning in the sky. This book is beautiful!
As with all books that have tabs and flaps that move you'll want to read this with your younger children so it lasts a while longer than if you left your kids to it. Each of the pages is a double thickness and it is considered a board book. I would suggest that you continue to read it as a group until your children are 5 or 6 years old and able to be "gentle" with the pages. Pinwheel will easily become a family heirloom if you and your children treat it with care and gentleness.
Disclaimer: I was offered a copy of this book to read & review on CCB. I was not required to have a positive review and no $ exchanged hands. Thanks!
As with all books that have tabs and flaps that move you'll want to read this with your younger children so it lasts a while longer than if you left your kids to it. Each of the pages is a double thickness and it is considered a board book. I would suggest that you continue to read it as a group until your children are 5 or 6 years old and able to be "gentle" with the pages. Pinwheel will easily become a family heirloom if you and your children treat it with care and gentleness.
Disclaimer: I was offered a copy of this book to read & review on CCB. I was not required to have a positive review and no $ exchanged hands. Thanks!
April 23, 2013
OMG, this is such a cute and well thought out book for kids. I can't wait to send this to my "niece" in NY as she will be 3 this year. I said "niece" as I am an only child but my best friend made me honorary Auntie of her first and only child. Anyway, won this on Goodreads and am so in love with it. I showed it to my manager at work and she thought the same thing of just how cute and unique this book is. Kudos to Salina Yoon for creating such a creative and colorful children's book.
July 23, 2014
There was a lot of "Ooh! Cool!" as we flipped through this at work today!
June 30, 2013
This book is beautiful and clever. I gave it to my daughter for her birthday and she had so much fun reading the book with me. My six year old and sixteen year old loved it! A great gift book.
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