Citybook.Shelly Rotner and Ken Kreisler. NY: Orchard Books Orchard Books is a UK publisher of children's books, an imprint of Hachette Children's. Publications include the Rainbow Magic series, as well as titles by Giles Andreae, Fiona Dunbar, Laurence Anholt, Bernard Ashley, Lauren Child, Debi Gliori, Anthony Horowitz, Andrew Murray, Shoo , 1994. Unpaged un·paged adj. Having no page numbers. , $14.95. Some books concentrate on a single artist; others collect reproductions dealing with a single subject. Then, there are anthologies that are based on photographs with single themes. An Alphabet of Angels is such an assembly of imaginatively composed photographs involving sculptures of angels: "the angels of chimneys sing to the sweep" is the text for two wood carvings wood carving, as an art form, includes any kind of sculpture in wood, from the decorative bas-relief on small objects to life-size figures in the round, furniture, and architectural decorations. The woods used vary greatly in hardness and grain. looking into a glasscovered diorama of a sweep on some roof tops. The author is a photographer as well as a poet, so we get a very sensitive wedding of word and image. Citybook's pages are crowded with scenes of kids eating or folks standing in line or a flower market or a mass of neon signs neon sign n → enseigne (lumineuse) au néon neon sign neon n → Neonreklame f neon sign n → . The very, very few words here don't matter. |
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