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Language:
Title in English:
Round the Block
Illustrations:
Colour
Place of publication:
Amsterdam
Country:
Publisher:
Querido
Year of publication:
2018
Pages:
76 p.
Size:
17,5 x 22,5
ISBN:
978-90-451-2173-4
Category:
"Round the Block" is a picture book without words, in which primary colours and geometric shapes happily move about. The Flemish illustrator Vanistendael transforms a simple square: from a setting sun into a little man who is frightened out of his wits, from a ghost to a butterfly pupa. Back and forth still turns into movement, the inorganic into organic, resulting in a beautifully designed and impressive piece of illustrative art, where colour transitions, shape changes and compositional shifts are evidently mastered.