Mark LudyRecensioni

This would be a good book to read at the beginning of the school year when talking about classroom expectations in terms of kindness. It starts off with a man who enters a clack and white town and he is the only one that is colorful and smiling. He hands a flower to a young girl and she becomes colorful, and it becomes a domino effect until the whole town is colorful. Would be good for younger classes.

I used to dislike crowded pictures because it made me feel overwhelmed as a reader and didn't know where to start to comprehend. But this busy pictures brought me a new fresh feeling! At the very beginning, the author designed most of the pages to be gray and general gloominess, and then contrasted with the gloominess is a colorful old man and the halo around him. As the story progresses, the old man brought the color back to the city, as well as the happiness, love and hope. This is just one story line among 60 story lines in this book as the author mentioned.

EL HOMBRE DE LA FLOR

Que sucederia si el hombre de la flor , llegara a un mundo sin color....
Este libro sin palabras esconde tras cada ventana un sinfin de historias.
Esta es la de un hombre sencillo que ama la vida, su jardín, y a sus vecinos.

First of all, I LOVE books that have busy, busy pictures. Thinkk Richard Scarry's books. But this one is even more wonderful because it tells the story using only illustrations.

A man moves into a neighborhood that is full of dark, depressed people. He makes a difference by handing out flowers and spreading color, love, and life one person at a time.

This book made me a little bit teary-eyed. I love that something can do that without using words.

From the very start of this book, the reader sees a profuse amount of “gray” and general gloominess in the area and how it contrasts to one colorful old man. As he walks through the town, the reader can see different characters looking angry, fighting, and looking upset. Then as he buys a small house up for grabs in this depressing place, his very presence is what brings the “color” back into the townspeople and smiles to everyone’s faces! The moral of this story showcases how a single person can make such a tremendous difference in other people’s lives and how true happiness cannot be obtained by anything tangible or materialistic.

An old man briefly moves into a depressing, dark neighborhood where no one seems to be happy and slowly transforms it into colorful, smiling, and friendly by his presence. Only young eyes will have the power to pore over the pictures to suss out the individual vignettes happening in the windows and on the street. I used a magnifying glass and wore my eyes out. Arghhh, it sucks to be old!

A coming of age story for a young tribesman. Challenged by many obstacles like a snake that wants to eat him and a gorilla that will beat him and kill him, he stays strong and brave. An ode to obeying and also being able to think about all your options.

The farmer lives in harmony out in the country with his animals. However, he runs into hardship due to Mother Nature & has to sell some of his beloved animals to get by the tough winters. In the end he gets reunited with his cow, Millibell, and his pig, Patsy after saving his neighbors farm from a fire. Happy in the beginning, sad in the middle, and returns to happiness in the end:)

A wordless book telling the story of an old man who is walking through a dark, boring, colorless town, but he, on the other hand, is filled with vibrant colors and a cheerful spirit. He spreads this cheer when he gives a little girl a flower, This spirit spreads rapidly through the town as the man leaves his mark and moves on to spread cheer across the next town. This book is much like the idea of paying it forward. If you're positive, and if you do something nice for someone, that sincere, kind spirit will spread more rapidly than you can ever imagine, and your one small gesture can make a world of difference, even if it's just to one person. What a great message!

My favorite wordless book yet! I won't give anything away here - just check it out for yourself.

The Flower Man shows a elderly man, flamboyant with color walking into a dark and dreary town. He buys a house and fixes it up, make it bright and cheery. He gives a little girl a flower, passing on his bright and cheery attitude to her. The happiness continues to get passed through the town until everyone and everything is bright, happy and friendly. The old man then leaves the town and continues on to another town that is dark and dreary and again passing on a flower to a little girl.

personal response: this book is so absorptive. So much is said with out a single word. I've enjoyed trying to tell everyone's story in my head, decided what the details are to why they are so sad. The way the book unfolds is truly magical.
preschool and up

curricular connections: this is a fantastic book for child involvement

Personal Response - The hidden squeaker on every page is a fun addition. The detail is amazing - something to follow on every page.

Library Program - Librarians could have each child follow a character to see how they all develop over the whole story. Each particpant could share a way that they might bring happiness to others. The children can tell you the story.

This is not only my favorite wordless picture book, it is one of my all time favorite any-kind-of-book! By slowly adding color to each picture, Mark Ludy illustrates how simple acts of kindness can transform a sad community. Each page is detailed enough to require many minutes of study.

A simply beautiful picture book that contains no words and still manages to capture a lovely story about a man who travels from town to town bringing happiness and color to the residents through flowers.

"A picture is worth a thousand words" and in this beautifully illustrated book this statement couldn't be more true. Although there are no words to explain this story, none are needed. It is a simple story of how one tiny old man can positively effect the people and community he moves into.
This book is also a wonderful tool to let your child tell you a story. With a child's imagination the possibilities are endless.

I loved this book. It is a wordless picture book. There are so many stories that can be told from this book. This book would be great for the reluctant reader.

A beautiful story in need of no words. The illustrations allow the reader to tell the story from his or her own heart. Love it.

The images did not make the hidden story flow, but the artwork was impressive and very interesting to me.½

Have you been by a house and wondered who lived there and what they were like? What made them happy, sad, amused, or angry? I have at times, but of course I would never go up to the house and peek in the window to get a better idea. We have laws against that type of thing. In this wordless picture book though, we can legally indulge our curiosity a little. We also see how a little kindness can speak volumes. We see the Flower Man enter a neighborhood that is clearly depressed and gray. As he interacts with his neighbors he injects a little happiness and color into the neighborhood, until the entire neighborhood is alive, vibrant, and cheerful. Then time to move on to the next neighborhood. A beautifully illustrated story that is a cross between the wildly entertaining "Where’s Waldo" and "I Spy" Books, and the random acts of kindness movement; this book is surly one that would be a favorite for both children and adults.