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John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads Spiral-Bound | 2005-09-01

John Denver Christopher Canyon (Illustrated by)

★★★★☆+ from 101 to 500 ratings

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A book following the lyrics of John Denver's first hit song is a great teaching tool for young readers about family and appreciation for the natural world around us.

This brilliant picture book adaptation of John Denver's first hit song is all about roots, family, and country. Set in Appalachia, a humorously diverse bunch of relatives and their in-laws go up, down and around the hills of West Virginia to converge by car, pickup, and motorcycle to a family reunion at Grandma and Grandpa's country home. True to Appalachian style, Canyon portrays it all as if on a quilt, complete with little stitches between the "fabric." The lyrics demand to be sung!

Publisher: Sourcebooks
Original Binding: Paperback Picture Book
Pages: 34 pages
ISBN-10: 1584690739
Item Weight: 0.4 lbs
Dimensions: 9.5 x 0.08 x 10.8 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 101 to 500 ratings
  • National Parenting Publications Award
  • ABA Book Sense Selection
Canyon has outdone himself in his second pairing with a John Denver tune, this one about returning home to the place of his roots. A cast of wonderfully expressive characters journey day and night toward a reunion. Just as in real life, the family members are an interesting bunch, humorously reflected in the vehicles they are driving - a peace-sign-adorned Volkswagen van, a motorcycle, a station wagon towing a camper, a pickup truck, a camouflage-painted jeep and a fancy touring auto. The joyous reunion and its attendant feast and musical jam will have families itching to gather together. Canyon`s portrayal of the song`s West Virginia mountains and countryside as a quilt is inspired. Painting on textured paper and including every detail, right down to the stitches between the differently patterned 'fabrics' making up the fields, mountains and trees, even hardcore quilters might be fooled into thinking this was the work of a needle and thread.
- Kirkus Review (October 1, 2005)