Your Places Box Set: (3 Board Books for Babies & Toddlers About Safe Spaces, Comfort, & Imagination)

Your Island, Your Farm, Your Forest
Jon Klassen, Author & Illustrator
Candlewick Press ~ ISBN: 9781536241853

Your Places Box Set: (3 Board Books for Babies & Toddlers About Safe Spaces, Comfort, & Imagination) by Jon Klassen

My thoughts:  The classic simplicity of Jon Klassen children's book illustrations and sparse text is especially suitable for the very young child. Klassen's illustrations traditionally feature wide-open eyes that peer from various and often unexpected places. 

In these three board books about farm, forest, and island, which are not your typical locations a young child encounters, but they give place to learning and soaring imagination. Each book has gentle rhyming text suitable for read aloud and which focuses on comfort and being safe.

Gentle assurances and guidance with those crazy bold eyes bring lots of good to the treasure these little books are. Also, the set can be safely esconced in their own little "home" - the book sleeve - further teaching little ones the care of their posessions.

About the book:  From the incomparable Jon Klassen, a trio of companion board books for the youngest of children.

With a minimal tableau of familiar objects and a gentle rhythm suited for reading aloud, a farm, a forest, and an island are assembled with all their items, ending with bedtime as the sun goes down. These are places for a young child to have whenever they want to go there. This trio of board books, focusing on safe spaces, comfort, and imagination, signals new ground for Jon Klassen, even as peculiar touches of whimsy stamp them as iconically his.

DISCLOSURE: I received a complimentary book set to facilitate a review. Opinions are mine, alone and are freely given. Where to find - click here.