The Line
by:
Paula Bossio (author)
Paula Bossio, Paula Bossia,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Kids Can Press, Limited
Paula Bossio, Paula Bossia,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Kids Can Press, Limited
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781894786843 (189478684X)
Publish date: September 1st 2013
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Another excellent picture book. Given a choice between Bossio's and Lionni's take on creativity and the value of art, I prefer this by far. It's amusing, and the naive art looks like something a child could do. More like Peter Reynold's Line than like Harold and the Purple Crayon. Apparently I reall...
What you can do with simple things when you have a big imagination.
Netgalley review. Cute premise but I don't think it works well. It's a bit like a cheap version of Harold and the Purple Crayon. The art is supposed to look smudgey but I think it doesn't look nice. Instead it looks cheap, like they didn't want to clean it up. The art also looks like someone didn't...
**ARC kindly provided by NetGalley and the publishers!to me, this book is all about imagination...a little girls finds a line. she follows it, plays with it, and changes it into all sorts of wonderful and even scary things. we get to the end, and is that her cheeky brother drawing the line?!it doesn...
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