mehsi's review against another edition
5.0
Come travel with Rose to discover something magical!
I read this book in Dutch, but just got to write my review in English so more people can know about this amazing and beautiful book.
In this book our girl Rose wants to discover something special, something wonderful so she has something AMAZING to show in class on Monday. I really loved that she wanted to have something amazing, she didn’t want to settle for something normal. We see her try to find something, try to find anything, and then she starts drawing and from that moment the story becomes a wonderful imaginative story about a girl following a very special compass, namely her heart. I loved all the places she drew/visited. From her hometown to places far far away. In space. On an island. By train.
I loved what she had to show the class, though I could understand the worries she had, would this be a good enough thing for her class? Would people like it? I knew the answer and wanted to just step in the story and whisper to her that everyone would love it. No worries!
The maps, the illustrations, the journey, it was all just so beautifully done and I love that all the art had a blue string holding them all together. It flowed between pages and illustrations and I love that this was done. The maps were just wonderful and I loved seeing all the imaginative names along with the real names for things. Special places got special names and it was just so sweet.
Be sure to also check the end pages both at the beginning and the end!
All in all, a very beautiful picture book that I would recommend to all!
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
I read this book in Dutch, but just got to write my review in English so more people can know about this amazing and beautiful book.
In this book our girl Rose wants to discover something special, something wonderful so she has something AMAZING to show in class on Monday. I really loved that she wanted to have something amazing, she didn’t want to settle for something normal. We see her try to find something, try to find anything, and then she starts drawing and from that moment the story becomes a wonderful imaginative story about a girl following a very special compass, namely her heart. I loved all the places she drew/visited. From her hometown to places far far away. In space. On an island. By train.
I loved what she had to show the class, though I could understand the worries she had, would this be a good enough thing for her class? Would people like it? I knew the answer and wanted to just step in the story and whisper to her that everyone would love it. No worries!
The maps, the illustrations, the journey, it was all just so beautifully done and I love that all the art had a blue string holding them all together. It flowed between pages and illustrations and I love that this was done. The maps were just wonderful and I loved seeing all the imaginative names along with the real names for things. Special places got special names and it was just so sweet.
Be sure to also check the end pages both at the beginning and the end!
All in all, a very beautiful picture book that I would recommend to all!
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
tarinannuppuja's review against another edition
4.0
Roosa ja jännittävät seikkailukartat (2020, Kumma, suom. Mari Nurminen) kertoo Roosasta, joka haluaa olla pioneeri ja tutkimusmatkailija. Koulun esitelmätunnilla hän haluaisi esitellä jotakin, mitä kukaan muu ennen häntä ei ole vielä löytänyt. Siispä hän lähtee etsimään jotakin uutta ja ihmeellistä kaupungista, avaruudesta ja valtamereltä.
Kulkiessaan Roosa piirtää karttoja tutkimusmatkoistaan, ja toinen toistaan hurmaavammat kartat ovatkin tämän kirjan sydän! Karttoihin piirtyy toinen toistaan kiehtovampia paikkoja, muun muassa nukkuvan lohikäärmeen dyynit, eläinpensaspuutarha ja salainen lymypaikka. Avaruudesta löytyy oma paikkansa runojen aluille ja tyhjille ajatuksille (molemmat sijaitsevat otsonikerroksen päällä).
Saman kirjailijan Purkissa-teos (2021, Kumma, suom. Mari Nurminen) puolestaan kertoo Leevistä, joka kerää purkkeihin tavallisia asioita: sulkia, niittyleinikkejä ja sydämenmuotoisia kiviä. Kun hän ystävystyy Elvin kanssa, he alkavat keräillä yhdessä purkkeihin ihmeellisiä asioita, kuten valtameren ääntä ja lumisadetta enteilevää tuulta. Kun Elvi muuttaa pois, Leevin sydän on kuin tyhjä purkki. Voiko ystävyys kestää välimatkan?
Molemmissa kirjoissa mielikuvitusta kutkuttava, harvasanainen teksti ja ihmeellisen yksityiskohtaiset ja herkät kuvat kutsuvat seikkailun ääreen. Kirjat mahdollistavat sen, että kuvien tutkimisen kautta voi lähteä kertomaan omia tarinoita. Mitä kuvissa tapahtuu? Millaisia tarinoita kuvat kätkevät? Keitä sellaisia tyyppejä kuviin on piiloutunut, joita kirjailija ei nimeä?
Näiden kirjojen tarinat eivät myöskään pysy vain kansien välissä, vaan ne vyöryvät ulos sivuilta. On melkein pakko ottaa kynä käteen ja miettiä: Millaisen seikkailukartan minä itse piirtäisin? Entä millaisia ihmeellisiä asioita haluaisin kerätä purkkeihin oman huoneeni seinille?
Aivan mielettömän ihana kirjapari! Suuri suositus näille!
Kulkiessaan Roosa piirtää karttoja tutkimusmatkoistaan, ja toinen toistaan hurmaavammat kartat ovatkin tämän kirjan sydän! Karttoihin piirtyy toinen toistaan kiehtovampia paikkoja, muun muassa nukkuvan lohikäärmeen dyynit, eläinpensaspuutarha ja salainen lymypaikka. Avaruudesta löytyy oma paikkansa runojen aluille ja tyhjille ajatuksille (molemmat sijaitsevat otsonikerroksen päällä).
Saman kirjailijan Purkissa-teos (2021, Kumma, suom. Mari Nurminen) puolestaan kertoo Leevistä, joka kerää purkkeihin tavallisia asioita: sulkia, niittyleinikkejä ja sydämenmuotoisia kiviä. Kun hän ystävystyy Elvin kanssa, he alkavat keräillä yhdessä purkkeihin ihmeellisiä asioita, kuten valtameren ääntä ja lumisadetta enteilevää tuulta. Kun Elvi muuttaa pois, Leevin sydän on kuin tyhjä purkki. Voiko ystävyys kestää välimatkan?
Molemmissa kirjoissa mielikuvitusta kutkuttava, harvasanainen teksti ja ihmeellisen yksityiskohtaiset ja herkät kuvat kutsuvat seikkailun ääreen. Kirjat mahdollistavat sen, että kuvien tutkimisen kautta voi lähteä kertomaan omia tarinoita. Mitä kuvissa tapahtuu? Millaisia tarinoita kuvat kätkevät? Keitä sellaisia tyyppejä kuviin on piiloutunut, joita kirjailija ei nimeä?
Näiden kirjojen tarinat eivät myöskään pysy vain kansien välissä, vaan ne vyöryvät ulos sivuilta. On melkein pakko ottaa kynä käteen ja miettiä: Millaisen seikkailukartan minä itse piirtäisin? Entä millaisia ihmeellisiä asioita haluaisin kerätä purkkeihin oman huoneeni seinille?
Aivan mielettömän ihana kirjapari! Suuri suositus näille!
5elementknitr's review against another edition
5.0
I adore this book! One's imagination should never be dismissed!
agudenburr's review against another edition
4.0
A great way to show the different types of maps in a story format. This book encourages young explorers to create and follow their own maps.
leslie_d's review against another edition
5.0
“Rose longed to be an explorer, a pioneer, a trailblazer.” So when Rose* wants to find something completely new for show-and-tell, she sets off on an adventure by scooter, rocket, boat, train, and hot air balloon. Where she goes isn’t on any map anyone would find, because Rose draws the maps she is going to use: “Her imagination became the blueprint, with her heart a compass.”
Plot out time for this picture book–and have art supplies on hand if you are reading this with a young one. Rose’s maps are double-page spreads with all the whimsical details you’ll want to pore over. She draws a Road Map, then charts the Sky, then Ocean, before finally plotting Train Tracks—4 delectable maps. Notice how when she completes one journey empty-handed, she pulls out her paper and drawing utensil to draw the next leg of her adventure there on the spot, and how she has an object to inspire it (e.g. rocket, boat, train). She finds inspiration in her contexts: in her situation and the world about her. Her hearts draws her onward, and it will eventually draw her back home.
Her maps do not lead her to find anything to bring back to show or to tell—or so Rose thinks. But at the end of her tale, maps rolled up in her arms, her classmates are enthralled and congratulatory. Rose “had found something no one had ever seen or heard before.” And even better, her tale meant her classmates—and the reader—could experience the adventure as well. She becomes the explorer, pioneer, trailblazer she longed to be.
Rose inspires her teacher and classmates in the closing endpapers to draw their own maps…and you have to admire the variety in both the student body and their individual projects. One student is mapping at a micro-level, a cell; and I’m intrigued by where the “black hole” map will take them. I appreciate how this picture book ignores the false boundaries of the arts and sciences and leads with a heart for something new and unrestrained and an imagination to fuel its possibilities. Of course, looking at the opening endpapers, you can imagine where these students’ hearts are finding fuel for their imaginations. Rose’s book choice is clear.
Marcero’s My Heart is a Compass invites the reader into an entertaining and empowering adventure and leaves them with a healthy dose of creative energy.
Recommended for all the libraries (community, school, classroom, personal). I think girls will respond to seeing this heroine on the page; I appreciate, too, Rose’s skin tone and blue hair, as will many a young reader.
*compass rose?
https://contemplatrix.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/compass-rose/
Plot out time for this picture book–and have art supplies on hand if you are reading this with a young one. Rose’s maps are double-page spreads with all the whimsical details you’ll want to pore over. She draws a Road Map, then charts the Sky, then Ocean, before finally plotting Train Tracks—4 delectable maps. Notice how when she completes one journey empty-handed, she pulls out her paper and drawing utensil to draw the next leg of her adventure there on the spot, and how she has an object to inspire it (e.g. rocket, boat, train). She finds inspiration in her contexts: in her situation and the world about her. Her hearts draws her onward, and it will eventually draw her back home.
Her maps do not lead her to find anything to bring back to show or to tell—or so Rose thinks. But at the end of her tale, maps rolled up in her arms, her classmates are enthralled and congratulatory. Rose “had found something no one had ever seen or heard before.” And even better, her tale meant her classmates—and the reader—could experience the adventure as well. She becomes the explorer, pioneer, trailblazer she longed to be.
Rose inspires her teacher and classmates in the closing endpapers to draw their own maps…and you have to admire the variety in both the student body and their individual projects. One student is mapping at a micro-level, a cell; and I’m intrigued by where the “black hole” map will take them. I appreciate how this picture book ignores the false boundaries of the arts and sciences and leads with a heart for something new and unrestrained and an imagination to fuel its possibilities. Of course, looking at the opening endpapers, you can imagine where these students’ hearts are finding fuel for their imaginations. Rose’s book choice is clear.
Marcero’s My Heart is a Compass invites the reader into an entertaining and empowering adventure and leaves them with a healthy dose of creative energy.
Recommended for all the libraries (community, school, classroom, personal). I think girls will respond to seeing this heroine on the page; I appreciate, too, Rose’s skin tone and blue hair, as will many a young reader.
*compass rose?
https://contemplatrix.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/compass-rose/
lacyduckie's review against another edition
5.0
It's not about the destination. It's about the journey.
My Heart Is a Compass, is in no way, affiliated or endorsed by Dora the Explorer.
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mrsjhasbooks's review against another edition
4.0
An adorable story about using your gifts and the power of sharing your imagination.
morgarelibrare's review against another edition
5.0
Read at Picture Book Read-In 2019 for work.
Love the beautiful illustrations!
Love the beautiful illustrations!