Obviously my 5-year-old daughter likes the book but she’s just one kid. She is not a representative for her species (so to speak). That said, this book just drills home the advantage that physical books have over their electronic counterparts: the sensation of touch. Play with a screen all day if you like, but you will never be able to move your fingers over these raised dots of rain or the rough bark of a tree’s trunk. As children become more immersed in the electronic, they become more enamored of tactile books. The sensation of paper on skin has yet to be replicated by our smooth as silk screens. And this will prove true with kids on the younger end of the scale. I'll agree with Kirkus about the adult designation, though. When I worked for New York Public Library there was a group of special needs adults that would come in that were in need of tactile picture books. We would be asked if we had any on hand that we could hand over to them in some way. There were a few, but our holdings were pretty limited (though I do remember a particularly keen tactile version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar that proved to be a big hit). Those kids would have loved this book, but children of all ages, and all abilities, would feel the same way about it. Kids are never too old for tactile picture books. As such, you could use this book with Kindergartners as well as fifth graders. Little kids will like the fun pictures. Older kids may be inspired by the words as well.

This book is the perfect example of an interactive picture book. Where the text--poetic and anaphoric--is beautiful in its own right, it is the illustrations where we gather further, more in-depth meaning. This book does not mention once that the little giant is blind, but the text asks us to ponder a question that those of us with sight think is an easy question to answer: what color is the wind? We know that the wind does not have a color, not really--but to someone who has a different way of navigating his world, this is not straightforward. We must rely on other senses. When the bees say the wind is the color of sunshine, we can assume that it's artistic in that sunshine also doesn't really have a color, but it also evokes a sense of warmth, the reminder of summer, the ability to relax. A young lad called Paddy sang it in front of the whole school. He had that strength in character which meant kids respected him, rather than sniggered at him. He did a great job, but then I buried the song for a long time. My oldest grandson, Charlie, is 17. He was surfing in Cornwall all last week and has a surfing type hairstyle. I'm delighted he's taken up the guitar again as he's very talented so hopefully the musical thread will carry on." For 22 years I just played in the pubs and clubs and never said a word. Just to lighten it up I started to tell little stories between the songs. I wasn't really aware of how important that was until a fellow from Derbyshire came to me afterwards and said, 'You were grand tonight lad, but I'm a bit disappointed because you hardly told any stories and that's all I came for'. So it's become an important part of the show. I think it gives people an insight into your character."

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Often described as the ultimate storyteller, the yarns and stories he tells between his songs brings a sense of intimacy to his concerts. The story’s protagonist, whom Herbauts affectionately calls “the little giant,” goes in search of an answer to his synesthetic question. Every piece of nature he encounters gives him a different answer — to the bee, the wind is the warm color of the sun; the old dog, who perceives the world through smell, experiences it as “pink, flowery, pale white”; to the wolf, it smells of the forest; for the mountain, the wind is a bird; for the window, it is the color of time. Here, look at it, even for 30 seconds and see some of it and see what I mean (and even read a full review from Popova: One of his most successful releases, Still Can't Say Goodbye was recorded in Nashville in 1999 and resulted in Landsborough winning the BMCA Best Male Vocalist (2000) for the third year in succession, and the Southern Country Award for best album. He has performed at most major concert halls and theatres in the UK, including the London Palladium. He also toured Australia and New Zealand in 2001. [4] thinking an Englishman going into Ireland you know and I was there like a day and I realized how stupid that was and yeah i was just playing in little pubs and things but there was a lovely funny story which came out of it i played i went into the palace bar and Athlon which is run by a great friend of ours and their plane was Seamus Shannon a wonderful according accordion player and a great act himself and he says had two famous people have just walked in our own Tony Allen and the marvelous singer-songwriter from Liverpool he said Charlie land straight and of course nobody dared me and nobody knew me and I sat down and they were all saying Charlie who you know they'd all had Tony obviously and this bloke sat next to me we had a lovely conversation and a couple of pints and as he said to me charlie is that right he wrote the songs I said I wrote song he said what did you write and I said they're all part of me I will love you all my life and he said you sure I've never heard of them I said it doesn't matter because I'm not a small

I was a grocery store manager railways flour mills you name it and lastly I was a teacher for 14 years but the dream was always a musical long really you ready teach you for 14 years I was is this in Birkenhead yeah in the same area where I lived and it was funny that must have been fun well if part of it was and part of it I mean I was so glad to leave people had this misconception that you were having a wonderful time and it must have been a real you know strain to pull away from it yeah I was so delighted when the Irish people rescued me it was it was so stressful but at the same time it had wonderful aspects to it and I used to get requests in the playground they said me mom said will you play crazy for a tonight in the pub so everybody knew what it would wear me how it really lay but I haven't said that I met wonderful kids and wonderful staff who were still friends now that's brilliant are you still in you're still based in Birkenhead value I am yet although even Peter Lindbergh and a

I don't buy anything at all now, because I've such a vast selection of barmy things. As for the hair, I've always liked long hair, though obviously in the army I had to have it short – it's one of the reasons I got out. Somebody said it's like money, it's not what colour it is, as long as you've plenty of it," he laughs. You're an artist who certainly hasn't had the success overnight, that's for sure. A lot of hard work has gone into you, and you've really had to work hard. What advice would you give a new budding writer? I would say to them be inspired by other people but strive to be your own person. Musically, it's great to take sort of influences from here, there, and everywhere; everybody's done it, me included; but then to strive to find something uniquely your own is all I'm used to; I used to admire, say, Dylan and the Beatles and all these wonderful writers, but then you think, Oh, I'm just Charlie . I'm not that, so I would say strive to be your own person. Musically, don't be put off by rejection because everybody's rejected me many times, but even people as great as Elvis Presley and the Beatles were rejected, so don't be disheartened by that, be yourself, don't lose her, and put a bit of faith in the man upstairs. Charlie Thank you so much for joining us. We wish you the very best for the year coming. His chart-topping success heralded the end of his teaching career. "I taught about six days after that. They gave me early retirement and off I went on the road," reflects Charlie who went on to release some 27 albums and achieve success across the world with his own brand of ballads, blues, country and spiritual music. He left school early and worked intermittently as an apprentice telephone engineer, on the railways, and in the flour mills before joining the army. He left after four years, in the early 1960s, and joined a group, The Chicago Sect, in Dortmund, Germany. Returning to England, he married, played in local bands, and worked in a variety of jobs before becoming a teacher [1] at Portland Primary School on Laird street, Birkenhead.