The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Yorinks, Arthur , Sendak, Maurice

Presto and Zesto in Limboland

32 pp. | HarperCollins/di Capua | September, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-264465-7 $18.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Presto and Zesto find themselves in Limboland just in time for the wedding of the sugar beets. But what can they bring for a gift? The droll (but overextended and arbitrary) text includes lots of wordplay. The watercolor illustrations are united in their tone, style, and sense of fun. A note by Yorinks explains how the story came to be, how it was lost, and how it came back together after Sendak's death.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2018