Drawn Together
Drawn Together by Minh Le takes about 1 minute to read aloud (102 words, about 1 sentence a page), and it lands best with children aged 3-6.
Measured read-aloud timeabout 1 minute
- Words
- 102
- Sentences a page
- 1
- Re-read tolerance
- 4/5survives a fortnight on repeat
- Vocabulary
- 2/5everyday words
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The useful verdict
Why Drawn Together works
A boy and his grandfather share no language, so the words run out on the first spread and the two of them meet inside a drawing instead - his comic-book hero and the grandfather's brush painting on the same page. A hundred and two words; everything else is picture.
Themes: grandfathers, drawing, language, Asian-American families, near-wordless.
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Straight answers
Questions parents ask about Drawn Together
- How long does it take to read Drawn Together aloud?
- About 1 minute at an unhurried pace, from a word count of 102. Reading it fast shaves perhaps a third off; stopping for questions on every page can double it.
- What age is Drawn Together actually for?
- Ages 3-6 in our testing, which is narrower than the publisher's range. With 1 sentence a page and vocabulary at 2 out of 5, it asks for that much attention span and no more.
- Does Drawn Together survive being read on repeat?
- Yes. It survives a fortnight of nightly repeats, which is the real test.