Review By HOMA WOODRUM In Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah (Amazon affiliate link), Susan L. Roth’s collages depict a mouse family celebrating Hanukkah alongside the lyrics to a song about the holiday. The mice light a menorah, dance the hora, eat latkes (potato pancakes) together, and play with dreidels, all basked in the light of a menorah “to […]
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Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah
December 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Books
Tags: Collage·Holidays·Homa Woodrum·Illustration·Jewish Culture·Mice
OK Go
May 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY I love Carin Berger’s style. From the playful to the contemplative, her children’s book illustrations never fail to delight me. And so it was with great enthusiasm that I dove into OK Go, a picture book for young children with an eco twist. Using sparse words and collages made of found […]
Tags: Bicycles·Carin Berger·Cars·Collage·Eco-Friendly Kids Books·Environment·Good for Toddlers·Illustration·Preschoolers·Public Transit·Recycling
Crazy Hair
May 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL This tressed-up, teased and twisted, stylish hair story completely makes the cut for me. Compelling and strange, it sucked me up like Rapunzel’s hair-rope into Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s artful scalps. It begins as a brave girl named Bonnie comments about someone’s “crazy hair” and offers to comb it even […]
Tags: Animals·Bravery·Collage·Dave McKean·Early Elementary·Hair·Humor·Huyen MacMichael·Illustration·Neil Gaiman·Preschoolers·Rhyme