Mark Gonyea, Author . Holt $18.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7575-5
Cartoonist Gonyea eschews complexity in this design primer, but unfortunately simplicity "doesn't make it good" either. He begins promisingly with the statement that "Design is all about the perception of size, shape, and color,"
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Mark Gonyea, Holt, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8814-4
In this irreverent graphic novel–style picture book, a boy wishes that, like Santa, he had elves to subjugate, er, help him with his chores. He gets his wish, but discovers that elves can be troublesome. In festive reds and greens, Gonyea's high-cont
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Mark Gonyea. Holt, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8813-7
Using sharp, angular illustrations in a palette of black, white, and a rather unholy shade of yellow, Gonyea builds zingy tension as his worrywart narrator frets about what might be inside a spooky black box that has appeared at the door. “It could...
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Mark Gonyea. PowerHouse/POW! (Random, dist.), $10.95 (28p) ISBN 978-1-57687-702-9
This stylish double primer covers both numbers and letters while giving children a crash course in graphic design in the process. High-contrast silhouettes on each page often evoke the work of Saul Bass as Gonyea opens with “1 A all alone” (the red ‘
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Mark Gonyea, Author, Mark Gonyea, Illustrator . Holt $19.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9055-0
Clean, crisp illustrations explicate the laws of color in the latest of a series of art books for young readers by Gonyea (A Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Good
). Gonyea lays out basic color information—primary and...
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Mark Gonyea. Aladdin, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-0674-2
An unseen (until the end) child narrator observes a shadowy figure by the window: “1 little monster staring at me.” The monster, more cute than scary, has a spiky round head and two mismatched bug eyes. The arrival of a second monster, with serrated
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