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K-3
Illustrated by
Gérard DuBois.
Joseph Cornell (1903–72) became an artist renowned for shadow boxes of carefully curated and assembled objects. Fleming's picture book biography focuses on Cornell's childhood collecting, capturing his curiosity for life's small tokens and moments. DuBois's illustrations, rendered in whisper-soft acrylics and manipulated digitally, have an old-timey aesthetic that complements the story's nostalgia. This book offers much to pore over visually and ruminate over emotionally. Bib.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2018
32 pp.
| Boyds/Calkins
| March, 2016
|
TradeISBN 978-1-62979-208-8$16.95
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K-3
Illustrated by
Gérard DuBois.
From childhood struggles in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century NYC area (including contracting polio and being raised by a single mother) to her acclaim documenting Americans' struggles during the Depression, Lange's empathy is the emotional core of Rosenstock's clipped present-tense narrative: "Dorothea sees with her eyes and her heart." DuBois's subdued acrylic and digital art aptly captures the era; six Lange photographs are appended. Reading list, timeline. Bib.
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K-3
Illustrated by
Gérard DuBois.
In this biography of Marcel Marceau (alter-ego, mime Bip), declarative sentences artfully capture the performer's essence. The emphasis is on Marceau as an artist, but Schubert doesn't shy away from his persecution as a Jew during the Holocaust. DuBois's vigorous illustrations strikingly cast Marceau as a mostly white figure against black backgrounds. An afterword and miming tips are appended. Reading list.
80 pp.
| Sterling
| September, 2006
|
TradeISBN 1-4027-1515-3$14.95
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YA
Stories for Young People series.
Illustrated by
Gérard DuBois.
Four well-known Poe tales, along with the lesser-known "The Oval Portrait," make up this volume. After presenting general biographical information, Delbanco briefly introduces each story. A mini-glossary is included on every page, which, although helpful, is also visually distracting in this otherwise thoughtfully designed volume. DuBois's eerie, muted, murky illustrations adroitly capture the sinister atmosphere conjured by Poe's stories.