The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Browne, Anthony

Voices in the Park

32 pp. | DK Ink | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-2522-X $$15.95

(1) K-3 Using four points of view, Browne explicitly contrasts the meaning of a particular event to its four participants. A gorilla takes her son Charles and dog Victoria to the park, where Victoria plays with a mutt belonging to another gorilla, who's searching for a job, and where Charles makes friends with his daughter Smudge. Browne's expressive and elegantly structured paintings are full of his usual surreal asides in this handsome, provocative book.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1998