This story was inspired by a René Maltête photograph in which a father wears horizontal stripes, a mother vertical stripes, and their child sports a checkered shirt. This boldly graphic concept book is built around lines and their direction.
Noémie Révahwas born in 1976. After receiving degrees from the School of Fine Arts and the School of Decorative Arts in Paris, she went to work at the Museum of Jewish Art and History. From there, she went to work as an editor at Éditions Michel Legarde. This is her first book.
Olimpia Zagnoliwas born in 1984. After years of doodling, she became an illustrator and began collaborating with theNew York Times, theNew Yorker, and others. She lives in Milan, Italy. This is her first book.
“. . . debut talents Révah and Zagnoli unspool a stylish story of opposites attracting . . . Zagnoli takes a disciplined approach to her crisp, modern illustrations, which use simplified shapes and a focused palette of primary colors. As a piece of design, it’s impeccable.” --Publishers Weekly
Smoothly translated from the original French...The illustrations emphasize iconic, black-and-white figures on solid backgrounds, emphasizing the eerily wild and fun contrast between two radically different personalities...The original, inspirational photograph is on he final page of this just-plain-fun read-aloud picture book. --Midwest Book Review
Witty, clever, elegantly designed... --Kirkus Reviews
“the predilections and personality traits we glean from all this go directly against gender stereotypes in a remarkably unforced way. With these two characters Révah and Zagnoli have somehow, amid all the abstraction, evoked actual, believable people, making you realize how ridiculous sweeping gender assumptions are . . .” –The New York Times
“How parents shalĂ)
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