The Wordy Book
Julie Paschkis pairs each image with a phrase that declines to settle, in the saturated folk style of her Neruda picture books.
A picture book built around questions rather than statements, in which each spread pairs an image with a phrase that refuses to resolve neatly. Paschkis illustrated the picture-book lives of Neruda and Maria Merian, and works here in the same saturated, folk-inflected style she brought to those.
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Artist Julie Paschkis (who illustrated those wonderful picture-book biographies of Pablo Neruda and Maria Merian) conjures up the magic of words and their blessed bewilderment of meaning in The Wordy Book (public library), each page of which opens up a question, simple yet profound, quietly poetic, and leaves you to wander into your own answer inside a painting alive with words.
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