![]() ![]() I think it's much more challenging to do than most people realize. Confession: as much as I love this style of picture book in theory, I don't always love the experience of reading wordless picture books. The drawings portray an intimate cityscape, a compassionate little girl and a dear lost doggie with equal skill and impact. One of the best picture books I've seen in years, FOUND evokes the glory days of 20th century children's illustrations without being derivative in any way. Recommended to fans of wordless picture-books - the only text appears on the signs in the artwork - and to anyone looking for children's stories about loving and losing (and finding) dogs. There is pathos here, as both joy and sadness enter the story. I loved the used of line and of color here, as some scenes are depicted almost in outline, whereas other make use of a limited color palette that, perhaps because of its very limitations, stands out vividly on the page. ![]() Their artwork is immensely expressive, and the reader has no trouble at all following the story. Newman and Day do an excellent job capturing the emotional journey of the young girl in Found. ![]() Then she spies a missing poster, and is faced with a choice: return the missing Roscoe to his former human companions, or keep him.? Soon she and this new canine companion have bonded, and she is happy again. ![]() A young girl, missing her lost dog Prudence in this wordless picture-book from Jeff Newman and Larry Day, finds a lost puppy one rainy day and takes him in. ![]()
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