All the loose ends are tied up in short order: the shower is a success and following a thunderstorm, a stray puppy suddenly appears at her aunt's house, ready to be adopted. Her young adult novel, Four Seasons had jacket blurbs from Judy Blume and Gordan Korman and fan e-mails from Bunnicula author, James Howe. She’s just published Mousterpiece: a mouse-sized guide to modern art, which is receiving starred reviews. It ain't: the watercolors are pretty, but a teensy-weensy sense of scale makes the images feel overworked and visually befuddling-even young eyes may need to squint. Jane Breskin Zalben the author/artist of more than 50 children’s books. Turtles tangled traffic!” Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Mousterpiece Circles and squares Squiggles and wiggles and stripes When Jansen the mouse discovers the art of such greats as Picasso, Matisse, and Warhol, the bright, bold colors and shapes capture her imagination and spark her creativity. Zoe wants a pet: “She'd stare at dogs on street corners, cats curled up in windows, and squirrels in the garden.” Her yearnings conflate with her anticipation of an aunt's upcoming baby shower, producing the book's centerpiece, an eight-page dream about a downpour consisting entirely of adorable animal babies: “Rabbits rained on rooftops. Afterwards, her artistic spirit broke out and she entered her own little world of art, copying famous art but in her own way. Every night after the museum was closed she explored the different galleries.
(notes on 22 artists referenced) (Picture book. The joyful clarity of both vision and execution thrills. (Aug.Zalben doesn't leave much to readers' imagination in this meticulously inked but rather woolly tale of wish fulfillment. Summary In the corner of a museum lived a happy mouse named Janson. Janson’s climactic mousterpiece features canvas texture showing through the paint, honoring her beloved medium. Agent: Elizabeth Harding, Curtis Brown, Ltd.
(Also, 22 artists, and not a single woman.) Best used in combination with outside resources that allow for a fuller understanding of the artwork presented. These books have the theme artistic endeavors the genre picture books for children and the subjects artists and. Since children won’t necessarily be familiar with the artists, Zalben’s story offers an opportunity for adult-child discussions an afterword provides sketch biographies of the artists Janson imitates, although the accompanying thumbnails only show Zalben’s (Baby Shower) parodies once again, not the originals. Unlike anyone else’s.” Most of the pages, though, are devoted to sweet-tempered parodies of modern artists: Janson does mouse versions of Josef Albers, Frank Stella, Chuck Close, and many others, adding a mouse face to a Warhol can of soup and subtracting a mouse-shaped white space from a spattered Pollack. Janson, a mouse who looks a little like Arthur’s sister D.W., lives in a museum and paints a string of homages to modern artists before creating, on the last page, a dreamy “mousterpiece” that signals her attainment of true artist status: “he did it her own way. Circles and squares Squiggles and wiggles and stripes When Jansen the mouse discovers the art of such greats as Picasso, Matisse, and Warhol.
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