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The watcher by jeanette winter5/18/2023 They are simple, two-dimensional folk art works. Winter’s illustrations are the delight of the book. For example, “She woke at dawn and saw them slowly rise from their nests, sit for a spell, then go off to find food.” The text reads more like folksy spoken American English than poetry. However the form does seem to give Winter the licence to begin sentences with conjunctions and end them with prepositions. While written mostly in poetic line form, the work is not particularly poetic. The picture book format and the Grade 3 reading level make this work appropriate for the lower elementary school target audience, children who are beginning to think about what they want to be when they grow up. She tells us in her author’s note at the end of this book that, as a child, she wished that she “could have read about someone like Jane Goodall – a brave woman who wasn’t afraid to do something that had never been done before”. Jeanette Winter is a prolific and award winning American children’s author and illustrator. The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps.
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