6/28/2023 0 Comments The color monster by anna llenas![]() ![]() ![]() The gray anticipates an adventure, while the brown appears apprehensive. Reinvention is the name of the game for two blobs of clay.Ī blue-eyed gray blob and a brown-eyed brown blob sit side by side, unsure as to what’s going to happen next. In the simple, childlike illustrations, which are made from pieces of cut-and often previously used-paper and scribbled crayons, even the flat figures look 3-D. ![]() “What could it be?” puzzles the girl…but opening the final spread reveals the smiling monster radiating scribbly pink hearts, and viewers will have no trouble figuring it out. ![]() There’s one feeling that is not accounted for, though. Each emotion is linked to a color: happiness is yellow sadness, “gentle and blue like a rainy day” anger, a violent splash of red calm “is as light as a green leaf / floating in the wind.” One spread-filling pop-up is devoted to each emotion/color, from clouds with lines of string “rain” to a hammock strung between leafy trees all the now-full jars regather toward the end with pull-tabs to reveal their contents. A child helps a mixed-up monster sort out its feelings in this inventive pop-up import from Spain.Ĭompartmentalization is the child’s strategy, as she urges the googly-eyed monster to pour its feelings into individual glass jars. ![]()
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