The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Kuskin, Karla

The Animals and the Ark

40 pp. | Atheneum | February, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-689-83095-5 $$16.95
1958, Harper

(2) PS Illustrated by Michael Grejniec. This newly illustrated picture book, with its galloping rhythm and carefree take on familiar events, is as fresh as a report on this week's kindergarten trip. In the watercolor illustrations, rendered in bright colors on textured paper for a bold, collage-like effect, the animals arrive in a creatively mixed flurry that's nicely matched to the precisely cadenced text. The art is at once sophisticated and childlike.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2002