![]() ![]() It starts out simply enough: two children run pell-mell across an open field, one holding a high-flying kite with the line “I wish you more ups than downs.” But on subsequent pages, some of the analogous concepts are confusing or ambiguous. 5-8)Ī collection of parental wishes for a child. They are more likely to appeal to adults than the picture book crowd as usual, the text is required reading for everybody. There is something mysterious about them, due to their undefined settings and abstract composition their relationship to the text is never spelled out. The shadowy world depicted here also features strange little animals, skulls and bones, and scribbles that look like cave paintings the atmosphere in these static pictures is lonely and mute. Appropriately, the artist makes use of a narrow perspective, offering readers glimpses of only part of the elephant's child, never the whole: his back, the top of his head, his trunk. Often, they are representations of almost abstract shapes (rocks or animals), seen from odd angles (from above, from behind a rock), usually against a monolithic and indeterminate background. The still illustrations, executed in deep, heavy colors, follow the story very loosely. ![]() The layout is rather plain: text on the lefthand side, pictures on the right. One of Kipling's best beloved from his Just So Stories (various editions), which explains how the elephant got his trunk, with somewhat enigmatic acrylic illustrations. ![]()
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