[Monday Reading] A 2-in-1 Britta Teckentrup Special

Myra here.

It’s Monday, What are You Reading is a meme hosted by Jen from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers (new host of Monday reading: Kathryn T at Book Date). 

Our July – September 2021 reading theme:

Binge-Read: Book Series Marathon

We are on the look-out for books that fit the following deliberately-nebulous criteria:

1. Books that are part of an ongoing series
2. Themed stories: books that are technically not part of a series, but fit a specific theme – e.g. intergenerational stories, nature-themed stories
3. Short story collections
4. Narratives of a similar genre 
5. Stories written by same author

Tree [Amazon | Book Depository]

Written and Illustrated by Britta Teckentrup
Published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers (2016)
ISBN: 9781101932421 (ISBN10: 1101932422) Borrowed from Overdrive. Book photos taken by me.

Moon [Amazon | Book Depository]

Written and Illustrated by Britta Teckentrup
Published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers (2018)
ISBN: 9781524769666 (ISBN10: 1524769665) Borrowed from Overdrive. Book photos taken by me.

I have always enjoyed Britta Teckentrup’s picturebooks, having reviewed her Under the Same Sky (Amazon | Book Depository) and Cat and Mouse (Amazon | Book Depository). Hence, I was thrilled to find these titles on Overdrive.

I confess, though, that I may not have really had the full reading experience that these two picturebooks demand, especially after noting that these are peek-through picturebooks – the book architecture or cut-outs (if any) are not evident at all in the e-book version.

While I am generally not a fan of rhyming text, I didn’t mind it all that much in these two picturebooks. However, I also felt that perhaps just one word or a phrase would have been sufficient for each full-page spread.

The art remains gorgeous though in both books. I suspect that the physical versions of the books would have been even more awe-inspiring.