The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Browne, Anthony

The Shape Game

32 pp. | Farrar | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-374-36764-7 $$16.00

(1) K-3 A family has come to spend the day at the Tate Britain gallery in London, and expectations are not high. Inside, we see the familiar technique of placing real artworks within the illustrative plane, but Browne manages to wrest humor, drama, and intimacy from his juxtapositions. The art-game element seems secondary to the book's more important invitation to make the connection between art and life and back again.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2003