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40 pp.
| Atheneum |
September, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4814-3085-2$17.99
(2)
K-3
Illustrated by
Ashley Bryan.
Drawing on Matisse, seemingly, as inspiration in technique, color, line, and shape, Bryan crafts vivid paper collages to illustrate a selection of water-related poetry by Langston Hughes. The construction-paper palette--a rainbow of pastels, jewel tones, browns, and grays--vibrates with energy. Happy faces, in a variety of dark complexions, smile up from boats and riverbanks, populating a brilliant world suffused with light.
Reviewer: Thom Barthelmess
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2015