These will more than likely give rise to both questions and discussions, and additional informative details on, say, the Grimms' fairy tales, the Eiffel Tower, the pyramids of Latin America, Cleopatra and so forth would have changed Peter Sis' Madlenka from an entertaining and moderately informative puzzle-search picture book offering to an amazing teaching and learning tool, not only for at home, but also in-class use.Ībout the illustrations themselves, while I think that they are lush, evocative and imaginative, I do find some of the colour sequences Peter Sis has used visually problematic. But even more than a list of searchable images/articles, what this book, what Madlenka is truly and sadly lacking, is additional cultural and geographic information on the diverse items and scenes depicted (both the more obvious ones and the puzzle-like images hidden in the larger illustrations). However, and as someone who has always had a bit of difficulty successfully locating hidden objects in picture puzzles, I find it kind of frustrating and annoying that author/illustrator Peter Sis has not also included a list of items to be found, to be located (at the back of the book), as I am sure I missed quite a number of them. I believe children (as well as adults who enjoy hidden object pictures) will love poring over the many small images, attempting to locate objects, stories, culturally significant buildings in Peter Sis' illustrative spreads. While there is adequate textual information provided (like the opening and all encompassing concept of Madlenka's loose tooth, the different greetings of Madlenka's diverse friends, bonjour, sathsariakal, buon giorno, guten Tag, hola, tashi delek), much of the details, much of the cultural information is presented with and by the lush and intricately detailed illustrations. I very much love and appreciate the premise of this sparsely narrated, lushly illustrated picture book. Her visiting makes her late, and when her worried parents ask their daughter where she he has been, Madlenka replies that she has been on a trip around the world (and that she has finally lost her tooth). When Madlenka, who lives in a vibrant and culturally diverse New York City neighbourhood has a loose tooth, she decides to visit her many friends and tell them of this momentous news.
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