Hello, Good-bye - Hardcover

Arlene Alda is an award-winning photographer and writer whose work has appeared in numerous galleries, as well as Life, Vogue, and People magazines. She is the author of fourteen children’s books including Iris Has a Virus; Here a Face, There a Face; Did You Say Pears?; The Book of ZZZs; and Morning Glory Monday, illustrated by Maryann Kovalski. Her photographs are featured in 97 Orchard Street, New York, written by Linda Granfield. A native New Yorker, Arlene Alda lives on Long Island with her husband, actor Alan Alda.

Grade 1–3—Alda's interesting, full-color photographs that illustrate a series of opposites are the strength of this book. The uniquely composed pictures are accompanied by mostly single words or phrases as captions. While some examples clearly show the word's meaning, others may require some explanation. Traditional brick architecture opposing a modern skyscraper for "old" and "new" and a statue of a roaring lion compared with one of a closed-mouth lioness for "hungry" and "full" bring a somewhat sophisticated perspective to the concept of opposites and may spark discussion. Tana Hoban's Push, Pull, Empty, Full (S & S, 1972) is still the standard photo-essay on the topic. Hoban's Exactly the Opposite (1990), Nina Crews's A High, Low, Near, Far, Loud, Quiet Story (1999, both HarperCollins), and Laura Vaccaro Seeger's Black? White! Day? Night! (Roaring Brook, 2006) all offer more obvious examples.—Kristine M. Casper, Huntington Public Library, NY
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