"The Land of Lost Things" is a bilingual picture book for children ages 4-8. Looking for her lost blue pencil, a girl follows a mysterious crack in a pencil box to the Land of Lost Things. The fabulous illustrations reveal many hidden objects in the Land of Lost Things, from the Blue Pencil Forest to the lost scissors on a butterfly of many colors and a green centipede that is a lost green comb. Each pair of pages has text in English on the left and text in Spanish on the right, with a full two page illustration over both paragraphs. Young readers will enjoy the flock of lost socks, the Garden of Lost Umbrellas, and the Mountain of Lost Mittens. After many adventures, the girl finds her way back through a hole in a sock to her pencil ox. Since she still is missing her blue pencil, she begins drawing her adventures and experiences with her brown pencil, wondering where it will take her. "The Land of Lost Things" is a magnificent creative stimulus for bright young minds, encouraging resourcefulness, adventure, and fun activities for learning in three languages - English, Spanish, and art.
- Midwest Book Review
K-Gr 4 –A boy sits down to draw, only to notice that his blue pencil is missing. He wonders about its fate. Looking inside his empty pencil box, he sees a thin ray of light and goes through a crack and enters the Land of Lost Things. He travels through the Forest of Lost Blue Pencils and sees objects that have been gone for some time–a golden button, a green comb, etc.–until he is lost himself. He passes the Mountain of Lost Mittens, the Garden of Lost Umbrellas, and a Herd of Lost Socks. The story is circular and when the boy looks through the hole in a sock, he makes his way back, looking at the interior of his pencil box. He never finds his blue pencil, but he starts drawing with a brown one and wonders where it will take him. Bursztyn sustains her clever and imaginative text with playful and dreamlike illustrations. This beautiful bilingual book stands out for its artistic design and the balance between the author’s verbal and visual message. Both the English and Spanish texts make for enjoyable read-alouds.–
--School Library Journal
"'Where do all the lost things go?' Bursztyn's whimsical illustrations offer a jubilant answer to a perennial question."--Publishers Weekly
Interview : Daily Freeman
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2011/06/02/life/doc4de6cbc04d196424759841.txt?viewmode=fullstory
"A great start…As is Catskill artist Dina Bursztyn’s first bilingual kids’ book, The Land of Lost Things (Pinata Books), about a child who loses a blue pencil and goes looking for it. Simple, well-drawn, and able to speak to anyone who’s ever wondered where all those socks and umbrellas and keys may have ended up. There’s just enough of the dreamlike and surreal (“I cut a hole in this page, and I fell in. Along with many lost and falling things, I was lost, too!”
I have a five year old who likes crazy humor or boy’s adventures. We can read “Ten Minutes To Bedtime” nightly, if need be.
He liked it, asked that we read it again. Then put it away for other books…and started making a box of lost things and drawing them.
Way to go, book! "
Woodstock Times - Into the sun and other worlds
http://lavoz.bard.edu/articles/index.php?id=10759
- Midwest Book Review
K-Gr 4 –A boy sits down to draw, only to notice that his blue pencil is missing. He wonders about its fate. Looking inside his empty pencil box, he sees a thin ray of light and goes through a crack and enters the Land of Lost Things. He travels through the Forest of Lost Blue Pencils and sees objects that have been gone for some time–a golden button, a green comb, etc.–until he is lost himself. He passes the Mountain of Lost Mittens, the Garden of Lost Umbrellas, and a Herd of Lost Socks. The story is circular and when the boy looks through the hole in a sock, he makes his way back, looking at the interior of his pencil box. He never finds his blue pencil, but he starts drawing with a brown one and wonders where it will take him. Bursztyn sustains her clever and imaginative text with playful and dreamlike illustrations. This beautiful bilingual book stands out for its artistic design and the balance between the author’s verbal and visual message. Both the English and Spanish texts make for enjoyable read-alouds.–
--School Library Journal
"'Where do all the lost things go?' Bursztyn's whimsical illustrations offer a jubilant answer to a perennial question."--Publishers Weekly
Interview : Daily Freeman
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2011/06/02/life/doc4de6cbc04d196424759841.txt?viewmode=fullstory
"A great start…As is Catskill artist Dina Bursztyn’s first bilingual kids’ book, The Land of Lost Things (Pinata Books), about a child who loses a blue pencil and goes looking for it. Simple, well-drawn, and able to speak to anyone who’s ever wondered where all those socks and umbrellas and keys may have ended up. There’s just enough of the dreamlike and surreal (“I cut a hole in this page, and I fell in. Along with many lost and falling things, I was lost, too!”
I have a five year old who likes crazy humor or boy’s adventures. We can read “Ten Minutes To Bedtime” nightly, if need be.
He liked it, asked that we read it again. Then put it away for other books…and started making a box of lost things and drawing them.
Way to go, book! "
Woodstock Times - Into the sun and other worlds
http://lavoz.bard.edu/articles/index.php?id=10759
