Istvan Banyai, Author Puffin Books $7.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-055774-9
""Readers are in for a perpetually surprising-and even philosophical-adventure,"" said PW in a starred review of this wordless picture book that begins with a close-up of a rooster's comb and ends in outer space. Ages 5-up. (July)
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Istvan Banyai, Author Viking Children's Books $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-670-86392-1
Re-Zoom resumes, or more accurately, reprises, the layout and nothing-is-as-it-seems perspective of last season's Zoom. Featuring detailed drawings backpainted on animation cels, this text-free volume opens with a red-on-blue cave painting that,...
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Istvan Banyai, Author, Astvan Banyai, Author Viking Children's Books $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-670-85804-0
This provocative wordless volume can be ``read'' either from front to back or even from back to front. Either way, it's a startling experience. Its illustrations ``zoom'' out, as though a viewer has rapidly backed away from each. For example, the...
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Istvan Banyai, Author, Kurt Anderson, Introduction by ABRAMS $29.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-8109-2990-6
Describing his work as ""an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette... no social realism added,"" illustrator...
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Istvan Banyai, Author, Istvan Banyai, Illustrator . Chronicle $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4608-0
Like a Möbius strip, each page in this revelatory, nearly wordless book offers intimate perspectives on the same scene. In one of the simplest vignettes, the word "loop" flips into "pool," and in another, a circular spotlight...
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Istvan Banyai, Author, Istvan Banya, Author Viking Children's Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-87492-7
Cycles of metamorphoses propelled Banyai's Zoom and Re-Zoom, and this provocative, wordless volume similarly features leaps of visual logic. As the title suggests, Banyai may mean to duplicate rapid eye movement through images shown unfolding step-by
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