Picture Book Monday: Lizzy and the Cloud
Jun. 13th, 2022 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerEvery once in a while at check-in, a picture book catches my eye. In this way I read the Fan brothers’ Lizzy and the Cloud, an enchanting picture book about a girl named Lizzy who buys a cloud from the cloud vendor at the park, who sells clouds on strings as if they were balloons.
Lizzy names her cloud Milo. She waters Milo; Milo waters her plants; Lizzy and Milo go for walks through their charmingly mid-twentieth century city. The time period is inexact, but this just adds to the dreamy vagueness of the ambiance.
Of course in the end the cloud grows too large for Lizzy’s apartment, and Lizzy has to release Milo into the wild, which she does from the rooftop with a few pigeons in attendance.
The illustrations are sometimes full-color, sometimes softly shaded pencil sketches with just one or two colors against the gray, often yellow or green. The style is simple but richly detailed. I love all the little bits of oddness in this quiet world: the rainbow cast by the clouds in the cloud-vendors bunch, the inexplicable alligator included among the family portraits of the wall. An enchanting book.
Lizzy names her cloud Milo. She waters Milo; Milo waters her plants; Lizzy and Milo go for walks through their charmingly mid-twentieth century city. The time period is inexact, but this just adds to the dreamy vagueness of the ambiance.
Of course in the end the cloud grows too large for Lizzy’s apartment, and Lizzy has to release Milo into the wild, which she does from the rooftop with a few pigeons in attendance.
The illustrations are sometimes full-color, sometimes softly shaded pencil sketches with just one or two colors against the gray, often yellow or green. The style is simple but richly detailed. I love all the little bits of oddness in this quiet world: the rainbow cast by the clouds in the cloud-vendors bunch, the inexplicable alligator included among the family portraits of the wall. An enchanting book.
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Date: 2022-06-16 01:57 pm (UTC)the inexplicable alligator included among the family portraits of the wall. --Wonderful! I might have to get a copy and then try to find someone to give it to.
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