Elle Van Lieshout, Author, Erik van Os, Author, Mies Van Hout, Author , illus. by Mies van Hout. Boyds Mills/Lemniscaat $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-660-4
Imprisoned in a “dismal dungeon” for stealing a pair of socks, soulmates Lovey and Dovey have also “stolen each other's hearts,” and in order to bring Lovey what she desires, Dovey sneaks outside (don't ask) and...
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Mies van Hout. Lemniscaat USA, $17.95 (44p) ISBN 978-1-9359-5414-9
Van Hout’s (The Child Cruncher) catalogue of emotions is dead simple: an emotion word (“shy,” “surprised,” “proud”) appears on one page, and a drawing of a fish expressing that emotion is shown on the other. But what fish! Scrawled like children’s...
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Mies van Hout. Lemniscaat USA, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-9359-5423-1
Van Hout used wildly expressive fish to illustrate emotions in 2012’s Happy. Twelve pairs of equally exuberant monster friends do the job in this excellent companion book, each representing a verb. As in Happy, Van Hout’s scribbly, childlike...
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Mies van Hout, trans. from the Dutch by Ineke Lenting. Lemniscaat USA (IPS, dist.), $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-935954-51-4
A boy, a girl, and their cowboy-hat-wearing cat are en route to the playground, and their journey is anything but ordinary. Van Hout’s airy washes of paint create a landscape of mazelike paths for the children to traverse, which readers can trace...
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