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A Door Is to Open

by Kyo Maclear Publisher: TUNDRA BOOKS INC

A picture book of thresholds and possibility

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Hardcover New English

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A picture book of thresholds and possibility

Doors provide the book’s organizing idea: familiar kinds of entrances become openings onto imagined scenes, from a birthday party to a shipwreck beneath the sea or a fairy’s home. The page-turning format makes each doorway a prompt to picture what might lie beyond it, while the description also connects doors with the nervousness and anticipation of entering something new. A fold-out page and textured case add physical features to this 48-page picture book. Its subject moves between concrete vocabulary—swinging, sliding and revolving doors—and imaginative possibilities, including an imagined future.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 4–8 exploring words and concepts through picture books
  • Families and educators looking for a book that invites discussion about doors, imagination, and new beginnings
  • Fans of picture books built around a single everyday object and the possibilities it suggests

Themes

Doors and thresholdsImaginationNew beginningsWords and concepts

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Book overview

Welcome through the doorway of this picture book . . . about doors! From a Caldecott Honor author and a New York Times Best Illustrated artist comes a celebration of entrances, thresholds and portals -- and all the endless possibilities they can lead to! Includes a beautiful fold-out page and textured case.

Some doors may give you a nervous, fizzy feeling . . . and also make you glad you came.

There are so many kinds of doors: swinging doors and sliding doors, screen doors for feeling the night air, revolving doors for going around and around. Doors that open into . . . anything you can imagine! A birthday party, a shipwreck on the salty sea floor, a fairy's tiny home, a slide into a room full of pillows! Or even the fantastical future ahead. Where will the doorway of this picture book lead? The only way to find out is to turn the page and go through . . .

In a playful ode to Ruth Krauss's A Hole Is to Dig and Remy Charlip's essay A Page Is a Door, this imagination-sparking picture book from an award-winning duo will be welcomed by anyone who is entering a new phase of life -- and invites readers of all ages to embrace the marvelous possibilities that wait for them behind every new door.
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