Books by Kim Krans and Complete Book Reviews
Kim Krans. Random, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-553-53929-5
Newcomer Krans’s wordless alphabet book creates an atmosphere of meditative calm. She works in black ink, devoting meticulous attention to each object, drawing hedgehog quills and jellyfish tendrils with something like scientific precision. An apple,
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Kim Krans. Random House, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-553-53932-5
In a companion to ABC Dream, published earlier this year, Krans counts to 20 using meticulously detailed ink and watercolor drawings of wild animals and objects, including four foxes, nine narwhals, 14 feathers, and 17 salamanders. Each numeral...
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Kim Krans. HarperOne, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-298638-2
A combination diary and sketchbook, Krans’s depiction of her 40 days spent at an ashram recovering from an eating disorder, divorce, and multiple miscarriages is raw and, for anyone who’s wrestled the demons of perfectionism, intensely relatable....
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