Caldecott Monday: Always Room for One More
I hope everyone had a merry Christmas! Or a happy Sunday for non-Christmas-celebrators.
I got (among other loot) a gigantic Cooks Illustrated cookbook, which I have been flipping through lovingly and with glee. One of my New Year's Resolutions for 2017 is to practice cooking meat (I'm thinking one new recipe a month?), and this book will clearly aid me in my quest.
Also it has a beautiful crepes recipe with a lot of suggested fillings and I so want to have a crepe smorgasbord.
In any case! Today is Monday, which of course means it is Caldecott day, and this week's book is Always Room for One More! Which is an illustrated Scottish folk song about a man who invites every passerby into his house, where they all dance together with him and his wife and ten children, until alas! the house falls down. But then all the visitors band together and rebuild it, twice as big as before.
There are great washes of pink across the bottom of the page, to represent the heather I suppose, and the people are drawn with tight little crosshatching, so all the characterization has to come through using their gestures, because they don't have faces. It is not my favorite illustration style, but I did quite enjoy the song.
I got (among other loot) a gigantic Cooks Illustrated cookbook, which I have been flipping through lovingly and with glee. One of my New Year's Resolutions for 2017 is to practice cooking meat (I'm thinking one new recipe a month?), and this book will clearly aid me in my quest.
Also it has a beautiful crepes recipe with a lot of suggested fillings and I so want to have a crepe smorgasbord.
In any case! Today is Monday, which of course means it is Caldecott day, and this week's book is Always Room for One More! Which is an illustrated Scottish folk song about a man who invites every passerby into his house, where they all dance together with him and his wife and ten children, until alas! the house falls down. But then all the visitors band together and rebuild it, twice as big as before.
There are great washes of pink across the bottom of the page, to represent the heather I suppose, and the people are drawn with tight little crosshatching, so all the characterization has to come through using their gestures, because they don't have faces. It is not my favorite illustration style, but I did quite enjoy the song.