Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
By Kenard Pak
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About this ebook
As trees sway in the cool breeze, blue jays head south, and leaves change their colors, everyone knows--autumn is on its way!
Join a young girl as she takes a walk through forest and town, greeting all the signs of the coming season. In a series of conversations with every flower and creature and gust of wind, she says good-bye to summer and welcomes autumn.
Kenard Pak
Kenard Pak is originally from Howard County, Maryland. He worked as a visual development artist for DreamWorks Animation, Disney Feature Animation, and Laika Studios before he began illustrating picture books, including Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?, The Dinner That Cooked Itself, The Fog, and Cat Wishes. He has also written and illustrated a seasonal series that began with Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn. Kenard lives and works in lovely San Francisco with his wife and cats. You can visit his website at pandagun.com.
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Reviews for Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This picture book, with its sweet and gentle watercolor illustrations, examines the highlights of fall. A young girl walks through her neighborhood, saying hello to all the nature around her, each of whom responds with what they are doing (e.g., chipmunks are gathering food to store). The illustrations truly are wonderful, with tons of little fun details to spots, such as a cat high up in an apartment window. This would be a great book for a readaloud in a classroom or library storytime setting when autumn is starting to settle in.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As the main character walks through the book, he (or she - its a bit non-descript) walks straight from late summer into autumn. He address the various parts of nature as he goes along - the trees, the breeze, the beavers, the chill in the wind, etc. - and they respond back. Each sentence starts off with "Hello!" Good for a program or storytime.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A young girl greets the world around her - the morning, the trees, the animals, the wind, and so on - in this lovely picture-book examination of the turning of the seasons. Each entity returns the girl's greeting, describing how they are changing or what they are doing in preparation for the coming of autumn. After a day spent walking around, the girl goes home and goes to sleep, awakening the next day to a world transformed...Given my great love of autumn - it is my favorite season of the year! - and my appreciation for the beauty of its cover, I picked up Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn with a pleasing sense of anticipation. Although the artwork, done in watercolor and pencil, and then enhanced digitally, more than lived up to my expectations, unfortunately I found the text a bit pedestrian. When well done, this kind of "child interacts with the wide, wide world" type of story can be very appealing, but Kenard Pak's text here just felt rather flat. Tastes vary of course, so other readers might react differently. For my part, I enjoyed the book enough to track down the sequel, Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter, but it is primarily for its lovely artwork that I would recommend it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lovely and cheerful illustrations show a child walk from home, through gvhd woods, into town, and back while talking to the environmemt on the last day of summer. The diverse, friendly townsfolk holding flowers was as nice as plants and animals answering the child's greetings like neighbors.I read the blurb and LOC description after reading the book and was surprised that the main character is "a young girl". The depiction in the writing and art is gender neutral.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love quiet, beautiful picture books. This was definitely one of those.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5diverse picture book (changing seasons, outdoors/nature; preschoolers ages 4 )
* Prominently features diverse characters - a dark-skinned, straight-black haired child walking through various scenes (woods, countryside, city) and encounters friendly people of various skin colors.
* might work for preschoolers/kindergarten storytime - the story is longer and quieter, so it'd have to be a group accustomed to sitting through longer stories (or else a quiet one-on-one reading), but the illustrations are lush and the text has a quiet, poetic cadence to it.