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danileighta's review against another edition
5.0
These illustrations are so heartfelt! I can see the care given to each pencil stroke and it brought these young ones alive for me. A book about imagination, anticipation, dealing with the loss (of small things like the end of vacation), and the hope of a new adventure next year!
rkiladitis's review against another edition
4.0
A young girl and her brother come back home after a family vacation; her shoes are filled with sand. What to do with all of it? Should they plant a field of umbrellas to wave at the sun? How about a forest of windmills, or a castle fort? The possibilities are as endless as a child's wish for the summer to stay. As the girl falls asleep in her father's arms, she extracts a promise that they'll return for more sand, next year. This sweet love letter to summer and family uses grainy gray and white artwork, with splashes of yellow and blue, and will enchant young readers and make us adults smile and remember our own summer vacations. You'll feel the sand run through your fingers and smell the ocean as you turn each page. It's the perfect way to greet a summer full of possibilities. Originally published in 2017 in French, this English translation of Grains of Sand has a starred review from Kirkus.
afro8921's review against another edition
4.0
A little girl brings home a little sand from her vacation to the beach. She uses this sand to imagine growing her own fascination destinations! She grows her own beach, lemon ice cream, and beach umbrellas. The illustrations are mainly pencil drawings with pops of blue and yellow to accentuate the little girls imagination creations. Great book for the last day of vacation.
ljrinaldi's review against another edition
3.0
This is a cute enough book, children missing the beach and dreaming about going there again.
I like how the girl finds some sand in her shoes and thinks she can plant it to make memories of the beach grow, and wonderful memories they are, beach umbrellas, and beach huts, and such.
But I have a slight problem with it. It is that these children are so very young, probably three or four years old, and the father says they will not go to the beach again for another whole year.
That is a lifetime away for a child. Will they even remember what the beach was like? Perhaps in France they can only go to the beach once a year. From the story it sounds as though they spent their whole vacation there. Perhaps the dad can only stand to do that once a year. (Which in France, would be an entire month).
The pictures are lovely, and the idea is lovely, but I feel so sorry for those kids, to not see the beach again for a whole year.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
I like how the girl finds some sand in her shoes and thinks she can plant it to make memories of the beach grow, and wonderful memories they are, beach umbrellas, and beach huts, and such.
But I have a slight problem with it. It is that these children are so very young, probably three or four years old, and the father says they will not go to the beach again for another whole year.
That is a lifetime away for a child. Will they even remember what the beach was like? Perhaps in France they can only go to the beach once a year. From the story it sounds as though they spent their whole vacation there. Perhaps the dad can only stand to do that once a year. (Which in France, would be an entire month).
The pictures are lovely, and the idea is lovely, but I feel so sorry for those kids, to not see the beach again for a whole year.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
rhodesee's review against another edition
4.0
Two children imagine what might grow when they plant the grains of sand that have come home from vacation with them in their shoes. What a sweet little book! Grains of Sands perfectly sums up the feeling of melancholy that comes when vacation is over. The illustrations are wonderful and the sparse use of color adds to the atmosphere of the book.
afro75's review against another edition
4.0
A little girl brings home a little sand from her vacation to the beach. She uses this sand to imagine growing her own fascination destinations! She grows her own beach, lemon ice cream, and beach umbrellas. The illustrations are mainly pencil drawings with pops of blue and yellow to accentuate the little girls imagination creations. Great book for the last day of vacation.