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The Rainbow Fields
Lonely in her new neighborhood and longing for her absent collie, Lucy paints an old woman in a hollow tree and is transported to the fantastic world of Mrs. Murgatroyd, where she learns that solitude can be a happy place.
1 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 1993
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February 12, 2017
The picturebook "The Rainbow Fields" by Liz Farrington, Susan Goldman, and Heather Preston, is a story about a young girl named Lucy who is feeling lonely. Lucy is ignored by many of her peers around her, she is not asked to participate in children's trading of lunches with others , and is ignored on the school bus. I concluded from the rest of the story that the book was not a bad book, and in fact it may be a very helpful tool to use in teaching children that sometimes it's okay to be alone and not depend on friends or others to constantly be there with them. I do not know if statistically there is any evidence that more people now are relying on other people such as friends constantly , for whatever reason, but if there is I think this book may be of help.
In the illustrations of the book I found a couple of things that really stood out to me. For example, mostly all of the pages were bleeders. And all but 2 of the pages are double page spread. I also noticed motif in the first half of the book the pages all had a recurring theme, and that would be a solid colored background. I believe that this is because the character was feeling alone, and isolated, but when the important Mrs.Murgatroyd appears the whole perspective on the book changes. The color pallet of the pages seems to brighten up and become brighter and more of happy less dull colors.
The book uses imagery, because in part of the book Lucy begins to float up into the air, I think that this demonstrates that she feels a little relieved, like weights have been lifted of her shoulders and that she has been able to learn its okay to be alone. I also think that the tone of the book is exactly that. It is a tone in which delivers a message that it is okay to be alone or independent.
In the illustrations of the book I found a couple of things that really stood out to me. For example, mostly all of the pages were bleeders. And all but 2 of the pages are double page spread. I also noticed motif in the first half of the book the pages all had a recurring theme, and that would be a solid colored background. I believe that this is because the character was feeling alone, and isolated, but when the important Mrs.Murgatroyd appears the whole perspective on the book changes. The color pallet of the pages seems to brighten up and become brighter and more of happy less dull colors.
The book uses imagery, because in part of the book Lucy begins to float up into the air, I think that this demonstrates that she feels a little relieved, like weights have been lifted of her shoulders and that she has been able to learn its okay to be alone. I also think that the tone of the book is exactly that. It is a tone in which delivers a message that it is okay to be alone or independent.
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