![]() (1949), illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen and recently reissued. The author's fans may want to keep in mind her similarly themed The Color Kittens While the visuals demonstrate considerable polish, the writing is frequently rough ("purple as coal" "Green as the green/ Of the greenest fern/ Any rabbit has seen"), at least compared with the finely honed works Brown saw into print. ![]() In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.', and 'I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog. ![]() For purple, the mice encounter a dapperly dressed Easter Bunny in the process of painting a large egg that is starting to hatch a single yellow eye, almost as big as the mice's heads, peers through the eggshell's widening crack. 18 quotes from Margaret Wise Brown: 'Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.', 'Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. ![]() Her work offers a panoply of pleasing scenarios. ![]() As Krupinski takes on orange, for example, she sets the text within a large orange sun below, the mice paddle a teacup (white, but decorated with an orange motif) in water where fish jump and bumblebees balance on floating oranges that have fallen from nearby trees. The featured color dominates each extravagantly detailed full-bleed spread. Krupinski (who illustrated the posthumous Brown anthology Mouse of My Heart) treats brief rhymed verses about 11 colors to a series of lavish tableaux, creating a visual story line in which two mice-a painter and his apprentice-travel through a fantasy landscape to discover that the world is a palette of these hues. ![]()
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