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What do you givesomeone to show them just how much youlove them?A father decides a river best captures his feelings for his little girl. A gift of life and changing beauty, a river encompasses so much more than meets the eye. It is the swan gliding upon its surface in the morning, the craggy stone steps leading down to its bank, the puppy trotting alongside a jogger on the path beside it, the drifting sailboat, and the hammock, perfect for reading stories in, beneath the willows that drape overhead. A river is a gift of possibility and challenges, a gift that expresses all things for which there are no words.Give Her the River is a lyrical reflection of a father's love for his young daughter, and is sure to resonate with any father besotted with his little girl, and any little girl with a besotted daddy.
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School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-Browne's picture-book debut romanticizes a river and a father's love for his daughter. "If I could give her anything," he writes, he would "give her the river," the "way the willows lean," the "swallows/that flicker flicker flicker," and the "fresh shiny leaves/of the oaks and elms." The sentiments expressed in the poem may be heartfelt, but they are also impossibly grand and emptily extravagant, and therein lies the book's weakness. Minor's unremarkable watercolor illustrations frequently miss the mark as an accompaniment to the text. When Browne describes a line of geese that "think they're pulling that boat behind them," readers see no boat, and when he mentions a jogger who "grin[s]" while passing by, there is no jogger in the picture. This book's excessively precious sentimentality leaves it ringing less than true.-Catherine Threadgill, Charleston County Public Library, SC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Touching paintings of a girl and her father accompany the poetry of Give Her the River: A Father's Wish for His Daughter by Michael Dennis Browne, illus. by Wendell Minor. The poem relates the narrator's desire to impart every aspect of the river to his progeny: "Give her the way the willows lean, how they sway in the green of their dreams." (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
A father describes the splendor of the river+the gift that he'd most like to give his daughter as a testament of his love. The verse+key phrases of which are set in obtrusive and overbearing larger font+tends toward the precious; conversely, the watercolors convey the river's wonders and the father's love for his daughter with little self-consciousness or schmaltz. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
