Clever spreads, such as Duncan’s “white cat in the snow” perfectly capture the crayons’ conundrum, and photographic representations of both the letters and coloring pages offer another layer of texture, lending to the tale’s overall believability.Ī comical, fresh look at crayons and color The drawings are loose and lively, and with few lines, he makes his characters effectively emote. Jeffers delivers energetic and playful illustrations, done in pencil, paint and crayon. With a little creativity and a lot of color, Duncan saves the day. Some are tired, others underutilized, while a few want official titles. Black wants to be considered a color-in color, and Peach? He’s naked without his wrapper! This anthropomorphized lot amicably requests workplace changes in hand-lettered writing, explaining their work stoppage to a surprised Duncan. Gray is exhausted from coloring expansive spaces (elephants, rhinos and whales). Red is overworked, laboring even on holidays. 3-8)ĭuncan wants to draw, but instead of crayons, he finds a stack of letters listing the crayons’ demands in this humorous tale. Beautifully written and illustrated, this striking picture book is the next best thing to being there.
Full-color, full-bleed illustrations form a vibrant setting for Ryan’s verse, deftly capturing the vivid hues of the seas, with the dark indigos of deep waters and sheer turquoises of shallower depths. “I smell the ocean, / the fresh salt wind, wafting lotions / from suntanned skin.” Astrella’s ( The Butterfly Alphabet Book, not reviewed, etc.) acrylic paintings are spectacular. Each appears in boldface as an added reminder for readers. The gentle rhymes are at once descriptive and instructive, offering an almost tangible awareness of the ocean as well as an understanding of each particular sense. Several stanzas of verse, spread out over multiple pages, are dedicated to each sense, each scene focusing on familiar seashore activities of young children: dodging among the waves, constructing sandcastles, savoring the warmth of the sun. Ryan ( Esperanza Rising, 2000, etc.) celebrates the many marvels of the ocean as experienced through a child’s sense of taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing. An eloquent tribute to the wonders of the sea, also functioning on a more pragmatic level as an introduction to the five senses.
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