PICTURE BOOKS
Révah, Noémie

Mister Horizontal & Miss Vertical

(3) K-3 Translated by Claudia Bedrick. Illustrated by Olimpia Zagnoli. "Mister Horizontal likes water-skiing and boating..."; "Miss Vertical likes elevators." Alternating cut-paper-like tableaux show the different preoccupations of two people who wear stripes--his are horizontal, hers vertical--that reflect their respective interests. In an homage to the René Maltête photograph that inspired this mind-expanding concept book, a final illustration presents them with the inevitable product of their union: a checkered-shirt-wearing child.

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