This Train
This Train
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | August 5, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0374374937 | 32 pages | PDF | 3.74 MB
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | August 5, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0374374937 | 32 pages | PDF | 3.74 MB
Trains in fiesta-bright hues zip through a picture book debut that uses the iron horse to demonstrate simple opposites and contrasts: "This train is in the country./ This train is in the city"; "This train carries passengers./ This train carries freight." The art is highly stylized, and its colors are souped-up: even the "old" train is a brilliant blue-green with orange cars trailing behind; the backgrounds also partake of the turbo-charged palette. The absence of humans and a tendency toward the genericAfuturistic skyscrapers, trees that look as if they belong on an architect's modelAcounteract the art's more painterly features.