The message is worthy, but this phoned-in follow-up doesn’t add anything significant. Wiseman opts to show fewer grown-ups here, but the children are the same as in the earlier book, and a scene showing two figures blowing chocolate milk out of their noses essentially recycles a visual joke from the previous outing. In the illustrations, light-skinned, blond-haired narrator Penny poses amid a busy, open-mouthed, diverse cast that includes a child wearing a hijab and one who uses a wheelchair. YOU!” the program remains much the same-including asking questions both “universe-sized” (“Could you make a burrito larger than a garbage truck?”) and “smaller, people-sized” (i.e., personal), working hard to learn and make things, offering praise and encouragement, speaking up and out, laughing together, and listening to others. Again culminating in the vague but familiar “JUST. In what amounts to a rehash of The World Needs More Purple People (2020), Bell and Hart address adult as well as young readers to explain what “curious and kind you” can do to make school, or for that matter the universe, a better place.
#INK DROP OR INKDROP PLUS#
Their embrace lasted forever.” The surreal plotline, plus the peekaboo pleasures of viewing each scene partially through the cutouts and then in full, will draw viewers too young to appreciate the story’s erotic aspects, but the latter lie at its rapturous heart.Ī love story with design elements and harmonious illustrations that might spread its appeal from children to adult readers looking for an unusual wedding gift and beyond.Ī color-themed vision of what school should be like. The two stories, bound dos-à-dos, meet in the middle on a climactic (in every sense of the word) double gatefold in which images of stars and rolling ocean, animals and people, light and dark whirl together: “They had endless stories to tell each other. But just as the wind whispers “Go now!” a draft whirls him upward again, directly toward a falling drop of ink that is “shiny, dense, round, beautiful.” Meanwhile, a drop of ink waiting to be used by her artist catches enticing glimpses of brightly hued landscapes and other paintings through black pages of irregular, blot-shaped holes, until her bottle is jarred and she flies out the open window to an unexpected rendezvous.
#INK DROP OR INKDROP SERIES#
A snowflake meets a drop of ink in midair in this dreamy, creatively designed import.Ĭarried after a “particularly long time” by silver clouds toward a town, Snowflake looks through a series of lacy white die-cut screens at possible landings: a boat on a canal, a colorful circus tent, children on a playground.
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