The Humpherys Family

My World of Color

Record Added: 4/5/2011
Author 
Illustrator 
Topic Animal Characters
Publisher Hyperion Books for Childr
ISBN 0786806052   Year 2002
Age 4-8   Pages 32
Description Printed binding
 
A visual story 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. The featured color dominates each extravagantly detailed full-bleed spread. 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.

Her work offers a panoply of pleasing scenarios. 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.