Description Share Post Hannah and the Violin Satoshi Kitamura (Scallywag Press) Hannah’s keen for somebody to play with. Who is there? Then again, what can she do? Might she imagine, rather as in Sometimes You Find a Dragon. Might there be a leaf, that suggests an option? This leaf looks rather like a leaf-violin! Thereafter, could she play it? Entertain? In fact, might she attract birds to sing, to build a singing ‘chorus’? However, what about playing for another audience? Might the flowerbeds wake up and sing and dance, for example? Furthermore, what about other animals? Might they be drawn in to hear Hannah’s playing? Clouds perhaps? In fact might everything be ‘singing and dancing to [Hannah’s]- music’? Hannah and the Violin draw a crowd! However, what about a call for dinner? Satoshki Kitamuri creates books of wonder and imagination. Just think of School for Puppies for example. Look at the certainty, how unquestioning Hannah’s discovery and performance seems. It means that readers are drawn into the story completely. Maybe we could imagine with Hannah, so that we’re playing and interacting with the world outside? Bookwagon suggests that Hannah and the Violin is a classic picture book!
