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Customer Reviews

A picture is worth a thousand words!

2008-08-08
I first used this book with my second graders as a pre-service art teacher last spring and knew I needed it for my own classroom library! This is truly a picture book with limited text to help children see what Ann Jonas intended with her black and white silhouette imagery.

Be prepared for "ooohs," "aahs," and excited gasps as you make the trip home from the city with the family in the book!

Round Trip

2008-03-16
I had read this book many years ago and needed a fun book to read to primary aged kids when I subbed in a second grade class room. They loved it as much as I did. It was also a book I put in the PEO educational basket our chapter donated to local community college to raise funds for scholarships!

Great kids book!

2006-03-11
I am a preschool teacher and this book was a real hit with my 3 to 6 year olds it really sparks their imagination. On child said I really like that the pictures are in black and white because you could imagine what the colors are. They loved guessing what the pictures were when they were upside down.

Great Book for Teaching Circular Ending

2006-03-03
This book is an excellent visual and text example of circular endings. I use it in both my reading and writing workshops. Very neat concept when you flip the book upside down to see new pictures and text.

Reversible in black and white

2005-09-18
"Round Trip" is a book with a surprise! Each black and white scene tells half of a story and then the book can be turned upside down to tell the second half. Drawings work either right side up or upside down and are visual delights. We read it over and over.

Intro to M.C. Escher

2004-02-16
"A visual stunner....The format is wonderfully inventive--once the traveler arrives in the city, the book is flipped over and read back to the beginning, with the black-and-white pictures taking on new meanings....Sure to delight and fascinate."--Publishers Weekly.

Very clever!

2000-07-29
My son saw this one on Reading Rainbow and he was so fascinated by the pictures that we went right out and bought it. It is very cleverly done, and all my kids really like this one.

Basically, every picture tells TWO stories. You read the book through, then turn it over and read it upside down. A bridge with water running under it and cars driving over it become, when upside down, a fence with electric poles and wires running alongside and stars in the sky above! It's really a wonderful little book.

Only 4 stars because the story isn't interesting enough to read twice, although the pictures are great fun to look at over and over again.

Round Trip, By Ann Jonas 1998-12-03
This is a kids book about a trip to the city. it seems a little stupid at first, as every page has on line (i.e. "we went throught the tunnel"), but is a nice book. then, at the end of the kids trip to the city, they say "time to turn around and go home", and you turn the book over, and it has hidden in the pictures other pictures that appear upside down. EXTREMELY CLEVER. All black and white. also try REFLECTIONS by Ann Jonas, which is similar, but in color. A truely great boo. (for a kid to read, or a adult to marvel at) Any questions, E-Mail me. END