That leads to a big, busy, bright idea that, predictably, caroms toward calamity yet drags along enough hilarity to be entertaining. Constantly in motion, Betty builds big block towers, cartwheels around the house (underfoot, of course), and plays with the family’s “fantabulous” dog, Frank, who is stinky and dirty. Inexplicably, his hair darkens from red to brown with a single page turn, which is likely to befuddle more than one reader.Ī favorite Frost poem reveals how serendipitous choice affects a lifetime.Īctor and author Witherspoon makes her picture-book debut.īetty, a light-skinned, bespectacled child with blond pigtails, was born busy. As he journeys, scenes from his ensuing life unfold, carrying him from childhood to becoming a young man with a family and eventually an elderly man, still musing about the choice he made in the woods that indeed changed everything.
The boy picks up fallen leaves, ponders two unknown roads, selects a leaf for his backpack, and proceeds along his chosen path. An impressive treetop view shows boy and beagle confronting the diverging path, emphasizing the magnitude of choice. Dwarfed by stylized trees resembling giant yellow toadstools, the boy begins his journey wearing a striped hoodie, blue backpack, jeans, and red boots. Illustrated by Vivian Mineker.Robert Frost’s familiar 1915 poem presents enigmatic choices for an elementary-age boy.Ī red-haired elementary-age boy trekking through golden woods with a beagle comes to a place where “two roads diverged.” Wishing he could “travel both,” the boy studies one road and then chooses the less-worn path, opting to keep the other road for “another day,” knowing he’s unlikely to “ever come back” and taking the road “less traveled by” could “make all the difference.” Richly hued illustrations in a palette of yellows and blues rely on simple rounded shapes, flat patterns, varying perspectives, and single- and double-page spreads to provide a possible context for Frost’s spare verse. The first children's book ever made of Frost's famous poem, this moving presentation makes an inspiring gift for graduation, marriage, career moves, and all of life's exciting roads.īased on the poem by Robert Frost. And as the poem progresses, so does the boy's life: college, career, marriage, family, loss, and, by journey's end, the sweet satisfaction of a life fully lived. When a fork in the road arises for the boy, so too does the first of life's many choices. This beautifully illustrated companion is inspired by Robert Frost's perennial poem. Heartwarming illustrations of a young boy journeying through a yellow wood accompany the original text of the poem.
And some raise an insolvable question: does happiness come from making the right choices at all, or from simply finding joy in whatever journey we find ourselves on? Some scenes capture the difficulty of decision. This interpretation plays a gentle homage to both possibilities. Though originally meant by Frost as a joke about indecisiveness, the poem has since been adopted by many as a clarion call to individualism and as a soaring sermon on the importance of choice. The Road Not Taken: An Illustrated Picture BookĪ perennial favorite, now a picture book for the first time.
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