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A Circle of Friends
By:
Giora Carmi
A boy begins a cycle of good will when he anonymously shares his snack with a homeless man. Without a single written word, this book effectively teaches about helping, sharing, and caring.
11"x
8 1/2",
40 pages,
ages All Ages,
$16.99
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
Understanding the needs of living things, responsibility, diversity, helping others, compassion, city life
Reviews
A Circle of Friends
A gentle and lucid, though wordless, picture book with beautiful and unusual illustrations. A small boy gazes out his window, asks his mother for money for a treat, and goes off to the local bakery. When returning home, he sees a homeless man asleep on a bench, and leaves his muffin, mostly uneaten, beside him. The homeless man wakes to the muffin and with a beatific expression, consumes most of it, but saves a few crumbs for the birds in the tree above him. When one of the baby birds flies down for more, the man finds a sunflower seed in his pocket, which the bird struggles with but ultimately leaves in the window box outside the boy’s window. The last frame is of a splendid sunflower unfurling itself while the boy looks on. The pictures are rendered in a delicate monocolor line technique, with one object in each in full color: the boy, the muffin, the baby bird, the sunflower. Sweet but not cloying.
A Circle of Friends
A boy about to devour a muffin spots a sleeping homeless man. He leaves the muffin for the man, who leaves crumbs for the birds, precipitating a chain reaction of giving that results in an eventual reward for the boy. The success of this wordless parable hinges on its affecting pencil illustrations in which only the characters and the objects linking them are rendered in color.
A boy begins a cycle of good will when he anonymously shares his snack with a homeless man. Without a single written word, this book effectively teaches about helping, sharing, and caring.
A Circle of Friends
Kindergarten-Grade 2-In this wordless story about a circle of kindness, a boy leaves the lion's share of his fresh muffin with a homeless man sleeping on a park bench. When the man wakes, he shares crumbs with two birds that feed them to a fledgling. Later, the young bird flies down from its nest, picks up a seed that the man offers from his palm, and deposits it in the window box of the boy who is later blessed with an enormous sunflower. Carmi sparingly accessorizes the line drawings with color, using gold, scarlet, or green to highlight an element on each page that will carry the kindness forward. This simple tale in the spirit of Sarah Marwil Lamstein's I Like Your Buttons (Albert Whitman, 1999) and Cindy McKinley's One Smile (Illumination Arts, 2002) makes its point without being didactic or overly sentimental.