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Jan 15, 2011 Ronyell rated it really liked it

Shelves: goodreads-group-reads, wordless

At first when I read this book, I was sort of bored with the illustrations, but now reading it a few more times, I found myself liking this book! “Anno’s Journey” is a wordless picture by Mitsumasa Anno, which shows the author exploring Northern Europe and marveling at its beauty. “Anno’s Journey” is a great book for anyone who wants to see Northern Europe through a picture book!

I never would have thought that I would be interested in reading (or looking at) a picture book that gives us a close At first when I read this book, I was sort of bored with the illustrations, but now reading it a few more times, I found myself liking this book! “Anno’s Journey” is a wordless picture by Mitsumasa Anno, which shows the author exploring Northern Europe and marveling at its beauty. “Anno’s Journey” is a great book for anyone who wants to see Northern Europe through a picture book!

I never would have thought that I would be interested in reading (or looking at) a picture book that gives us a close up view of Northern Europe! Mitsumasa Anno has done an excellent job at illustrating this book and I loved the way that Mitsumasa Anno made the illustrations of Northern Europe in aerial view, since it helps readers see everything going on in Northern Europe, including seeing the festivals and people working on their gardens. It was like exploring the customs in Northern Europe with really having to go there in person and it was such a wonderful experience! I also loved the surprising popular fairy tale characters and other well-known characters such as the characters from “Sesame Street” that Mitsumasa Anno put into the illustrations, although I will admit that I had to read the final page of this book to figure this out, but it was worth the trouble to go through the book again to seek these characters out!

The reason why I gave this book a four star rating instead of a five star rating is because I felt that the man in the blue outfit who is riding a horse throughout the book should have interacted with the people and festivals that took place while the man was traveling through Northern Europe since it would have made the book more interesting and more relatable to the audience if we actually got close up shots of the man taking part in the festivals so that way we can see if the man actually enjoyed his journey or not.

Overall, “Anno’s Journey” is a great book for children who want to explore Northern Europe through the comforts of their home. I would recommend this book to children ages four and up since smaller children might be a bit confused about what country Anno is traveling through.
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Jun 11, 2012 Fjóla rated it really liked it

Shelves: children-s-books, picture-books, 1001-kids-5plus, kids-award-winners, kids-wordless

As is the case with so many wordless books, this one calls for repeated "readings". I liked to study the details, try to imagine through where the rider was traveling. In particular I liked how some things repeated themselves through the book but in different form/shape: landscapes, groups of people, children. My 4 1/2 year old was pretty drawn into this book as well. We might seek out Anno's other "travel" books: Spain, Britain, U.S.A, Italy ... ...more

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