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PICTURE BOOKS

Veillé, Éric

My Pictures After the Storm

40 pp. | Gecko | March, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-776571-04-8 $16.99

(1) K-3 Translated by Daniel Hahn. This subversive French import riffs on the standard before-and-after setup with a crafty conceit and playful presentation. On the opening spread's left-hand page sits a grouping of seaside items, titled "MY PICTURES," labeled in loopy cursive. On the right, "MY PICTURES after the storm" display the same items, now altered: the pail is a puddle, the slide is overturned, etc. Subsequent juxtapositions up the ante with increasingly beguiling transmogrifications.

Reviewer: Thom Barthelmess | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2017