You know you have a good book in your hands when a young child says, "Read it again." That's what happened the first time I read this book to our six year-old granddaughter.
We usually spend an hour reading each day when she comes from school. After reading it to her, she wanted to know more about moles. So we looked them up on the Internet. The next day, when she came to the house, this was the first book she picked out again for our reading time.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
An imaginative, charming tale about searching for beauty and light in the world around us.
When Mole looks around his underground home, all he sees is the black- and-white world of his cold, dark hole. Mole digs and digs, dreaming of finding something colorful at the end of one of his tunnels, but day after day, he is disappointed. One day, as Mole continues to search, he finds a pink radish poking through the top of his tunnel like a chandelier. Delighted with the knowledge that the world isn’t just black and white, he starts to talk to his chandelier about the world above. He learns that the world is full of colors! As Mole listens to his chandelier describe life aboveground, he imagines bright clothes, red roofs, vibrant green trees, pastel flowers, and the blush of the sun as it sinks through the sky.
The next morning, Mole wakes to find his chandelier is gone, leaving a hole in its place. He is so upset at first that it takes him a moment to realize how bright his home has become. Searching for his chandelier, he crawls out of his black-and-white hole into the world above and discovers a place more colorful than he ever dreamed possible.
Packed with vivid colors and striking illustrations, Mole in a Black-and-White Hole tells a charming tale about what awaits us when we seek out the light in the darkness.
Illustrated in color throughout
