![]() ![]() The "story" (such as it is) of fourteen oranges from the same tree, and where they end up, feels very much like a vehicle for the artwork here, but that's OK, since the artwork is so very appealing. It's very graphic (is that the right word?), with bold shapes, stylized forms, and a limited color range - just blue, with the occasional orange - that combine to make it very striking. Marcus gave, in his essay "Back to the Future: Retro picture books - déjà vu all over again?" (which can be found in the January/February 2010 edition of The Horn Book Magazine), of picture-books harking back to the Constructivist style of the early twentieth century, Richard McGuire's The Orange Book is (not surprisingly) a picture-book with an incredibly strong visual presence. ![]() One of a number of examples that children's literature scholar Leonard S. ![]()
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