The book also greatly incorporates the use of white space. The book for the most part follows a layout of having the image on one page and having the accompanying text on the page next to it, with the exception of a few pages where the image extends to both pages.
The story, written by Barnett is told in the present tense, from a third person narrative point of view. It was published by Candlewick in 2014 and was selected as a Caldecott Honor Book in 2015. (Oct.Sam and Dave Dig a Hole is a children’s book by author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen.
But they didn’t find anything spectacular.” Meanwhile, their dog’s pursuit of a small bone leads further downward, possibly through the Earth and out the “other side.” They land in their own backyard again-or do they? Barnett and Klassen (Extra Yarn) dangle the prospect of fantastic subterranean treasure before readers, but leave them with an even greater reward: a tantalizingly creepy and open-ended conclusion. Cross-sections of earth show them further and further down, and comic tension erupts as readers see gigantic diamonds buried at intervals underground while Sam and Dave tunnel on, missing every one: “So Dave went one way, and Sam went another. ‘We are on a mission,’ said Dave.” Klassen’s boys, with identical poker faces and glassy expressions, hold their shovels American Gothic–style, considering their next move. ‘When should we stop digging?’ asked Sam. His deadpan prose mimics the declarative sentences of early readers: “On Monday Sam and Dave dug a hole.
Barnett’s comic voice is at its driest as he recounts that quintessential American childhood activity-the digging of the giant hole.
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