Ellen Raskin was thinking outside the box before most of us even knew there was a box. A writer, an illustrator, a designer — she combined them all into a profession she called bookmaking. In her novels, the typeface is as much an element as the mystery/puzzle plot, which is as integral as the wordplay, [...]
In the What Were They Thinking? department…
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jean McElroy’s Let’s Count 123! (Simon and Schuster, May), a pleasant new board book that counts ten of the celebratory objects at a child’s birthday party (“1 cake / 2 candles / 3 party hats”), bills itself as “both chunky and lightweight!” The inside pages are not cardboard but paper-covered flat boxes (I think). So, [...]
