All the Places to Love
By Patricia MacLachlan and paintings by Mike Wimmer
When I opened the first page of this particular book I was absolutely blown away by the illustrations. I thought that they were incredibly life like; it almost looked like I was looking at a photograph. I went through each page and looked at the illustrations before I looked at any of the text. Each illustration held a lot of detail which made the illustration come alive. It really added to the book because it gave the reader a good visual about how these places might look.
When I did finally look at the text I was surprised about how descriptive the text is. Since the text is so detailed this might be a good book to use a lesson for visualizing or creating visual pictures. Children would be able to create beautiful pictures from how the text describes a certain scene. Children would have to listen to the story and have to use how the author described the scene from the book to make their picture. All the Places to Love is a very versitle book, it can be used to read for enjoyment or be used in a reading lesson to make visual pictures.