![]() A pair of hands descends, and soon, amid a flurry of squishing and prodding and poking and sculpting, a handsome gray wolf and a stately brown owl emerge. 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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