Book Review: No, David! by David Shannon
David Shannon was born in Washington, D.C. in 1959. While he grew up in Spokane, Washington he found the love for drawing as soon as he could hold a crayon. In elementary school his teacher realized that if they let David draw then he would not disrupt the class and the classroom would have pretty good art on their walls. Soon David graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he majored in illustration. He then told his pickup truck and moved to New York City in 1983. David's work appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, as well as numerous book jackets and posters. Finally in 1988, he illustrated his first children's book, How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?, by Julius Lester. He was encouraged to try writing his own stories after that. His first book was How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball, which was New York Times Best-illustrated book in 1994. David has written and/ or illustrated over 35 books for children. He lives in LA with his wife and his daughter.In No, David by David Shannon is an autobiography of when he was five years old. He was the little kid who broke all his mom's rules. He chewed with his mouth open and he jumped on the furniture. He also broke his mom's vase. As the result all David ever heard from his mom was "No, David!" This book was a Caldecott Medal Nominee (1999), Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award (1999), Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (2000), Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award for Grades K-3 (2001), and Buckaroo Book Award (2001).
My three kids love this book so very much that we would be reading it every day if I let them. They really enjoy all the action that this book has and knows that sometimes when they do similar things that I (their mom) says no. They especially giggled about a certain page of a child running down a street. I really enjoy this book as an adult because it's true we parents do say no a lot of times and sometimes it feels like that is all we say to our children. Though at the end of the story the mom does remind the child she does in deed love her child.
I recommend checking this book out.
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