Review: Free Fall

Free Fall by David Wiesner
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

2021 June 16

This is part of my 365 Kids Books challenge. For an explanation see my review for 101 Amazing Facts about Australia You can see all the books on their own shelf. Thanks to the marvelous people @chpublib and @ocplibraries who are keeping me supplied with all the Wiesner books.

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As noted before I think, I really like when Wiesner just lets the illustrations stand on their own. I read somewhere that he created a nine-foot long painting while in art school. Of course he did.

The only thing I don't love about this book is that it is actually a book. I mean, I want it to be a frieze going around in a closed circle, the way I also want to see The Nursery Frieze. I like the way everything changes size and turns into something else, and the more I look at it, the more details I notice. Mentally it's all "oh, cool!" with each turn of the page.

***

2009 March 31

This is so much fun to examine closely. And I like the Escher references.

Library copy

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