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Sat 11 Nov 2009Here, There and everywhere
PICTURE BOOKS: From quiet and subtle to surreal and rather demented – picture books are as exciting as ever, writes Robert Dunbar
OF THE IRISH picture-book writers and illustrators who have come to the fore in recent years Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick has emerged as one of the most accomplished and most versatile. Her new title, There(Roaring Book Press, $17.95), has several claims to be considered her strongest work yet, not least in its extremely successful combination of text and image. It touches on one of the classic motifs of children’s literature, a child’s sense of yearning for a world beyond her own and her growing understanding of the distances opening up between aspiration and attainment.
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