Verdi

by Janell Cannon

Overview

When the young tree python's mother tells him to grow up big and green, Verdi can't imagine why. All the big green snakes seem lazy, boring, and rude. Besides, he really loves his bright yellow skin. So Verdi decides he simply won't turn green. Oh oh!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788426130419
Publisher:	Lectorum Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	06/28/2001
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Language:	Spanish
Lexile:	530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Janell Cannon's picture books have won many awards and are beloved around the world. She is the author and illustrator of Verdi, Crickwing, Pinduli, and the long-time bestselling classic Stellaluna. Born and raised in Minnesota, Ms. Cannon now lives in Southern California.

Janell Cannon's picture books have won many awards and are beloved around the world. She is the author and illustrator of Verdi, Crickwing, Pinduli, and the long-time bestselling classic Stellaluna. Born and raised in Minnesota, Ms. Cannon now lives in Southern California.

Editorial Reviews

Cannon (Trupp, 1995, etc.) strikes a fragile balance between fact and fiction in her presentation of Verdi, a very small, bright yellow python who does not want to grow up into the adult snakes he knows: green, boring, and rude. He tries to race off, wash off, and cover up all signs of his own encroaching green, until an accident forces him to slow down. He grows up big and green and slumbrously silent as he drapes on a branch in the tropical sun. When two very yellow, very small pythons chance upon him as he basks, they fidget and whisper and snicker; rather than be annoyed, Verdi recognizes that "they're just like I used to be" and offers to show them the fancy figure eight he perfected, with some mishap, as a youngster. He may be an adult, but he's still the same old Verdi, he thinks, rejoicing—a delightful, airy thought to leave with young readers. Once again, the author's acrylic and colored pencil full-page drawings are carefully observed, apt, and radiant. An afterword provides sufficient information on snakes to appease those in search of deeper knowledge.

Kirkus Reviews