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A review by ctoca
Blackout by John Rocco
4.0
The cover of Blackout is an eye-catching scene of a city in darkness, causing you to want to open the cover and read more about the night on which the story takes place.
In this story, a young girl is at home with her busy family. She wants to spend time with them playing a game but they are all doing their own activities. Suddenly, the whole city goes dark. It's a blackout. The family comes together and sits in the candlelight. When it gets hot, they go to the rooftop and then down to the street, finding their neighbors all having fun. When the lights come back on, everyone goes back inside to their normal busy lives. But this family has a different idea, because, as the book so appropriately states, "not everyone likes normal."
Many of the illustrations in this book are framed, and occasionally there is more than one from per page which creates a comic book-like feel. It helps to emphasize certain scenes. The frames that are in place during the blackout are on a black page, helping to make everything feel darker.
This is a fun and easy book. I would definitely recommend it for younger children because it will be easy to read and the pictures help to tell the same story that the text is telling.
In this story, a young girl is at home with her busy family. She wants to spend time with them playing a game but they are all doing their own activities. Suddenly, the whole city goes dark. It's a blackout. The family comes together and sits in the candlelight. When it gets hot, they go to the rooftop and then down to the street, finding their neighbors all having fun. When the lights come back on, everyone goes back inside to their normal busy lives. But this family has a different idea, because, as the book so appropriately states, "not everyone likes normal."
Many of the illustrations in this book are framed, and occasionally there is more than one from per page which creates a comic book-like feel. It helps to emphasize certain scenes. The frames that are in place during the blackout are on a black page, helping to make everything feel darker.
This is a fun and easy book. I would definitely recommend it for younger children because it will be easy to read and the pictures help to tell the same story that the text is telling.