![]() ) gets in some great lines-in answer to the question of whether the baby is a boy or a girl, Zoe's aunt answers, “I hope so”-but the deus ex machina ending is unsatisfying. ![]() All the loose ends are tied up in short order: the shower is a success and following a thunderstorm, a stray puppy suddenly appears at her aunt's house, ready to be adopted. It ain't: the watercolors are pretty, but a teensy-weensy sense of scale makes the images feel overworked and visually befuddling-even young eyes may need to squint. Turtles tangled traffic!” Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Zoe wants a pet: “She'd stare at dogs on street corners, cats curled up in windows, and squirrels in the garden.” Her yearnings conflate with her anticipation of an aunt's upcoming baby shower, producing the book's centerpiece, an eight-page dream about a downpour consisting entirely of adorable animal babies: “Rabbits rained on rooftops. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Zalben doesn't leave much to readers' imagination in this meticulously inked but rather woolly tale of wish fulfillment. Zalben, who has two grown sons, lives on Long Island with her husband Steven. When she isn't painting, she loves to cook and garden, (she has done two cookbooks!) write articles, and travel the world speaking about creating children's books. (notes on 22 artists referenced) (Picture book. The joyful clarity of both vision and execution thrills. ![]() Jane Breskin Zalben has created more than fifty books for children - both picture books and young adult novels, and her art has been shown at galleries and museums across the country. Janson’s climactic mousterpiece features canvas texture showing through the paint, honoring her beloved medium. Janson was 'the Bible' of all university art students in asking the universal questions: "What is art? Why is this art?" And then finding your own voice and doing your passion. Studied at Pratt Graphics Center after college.) I used the name "Janson" because the History of Art by H.W. (I studied with Herb Aach, a color field painter and paint chemist, Bob Birmelin, an etcher, Richard Serra, sculptor, and Marvin Bileck who had won a Caldecott Honor - all influences on a young college fine arts major. ![]() Years followed with a 6th-grade scholarship to Pratt on weekends, The Art Students League at 11, ultimately The High School of Music & Art, and then Queens College where I was an art major focusing on huge modern paintings, etchings and typography. In the afternoon, we would tour the American Wing with rooms of old furniture, the kind my main character lives in, and then make our way in time through the galleries to modern art - just like Janson, my little mouse! It was obviously a seminal time in beginning development. I would throw a penny in the water and make a wish. In the afternoon, we would have lunch at the cafeteria - dill pickles and an iced cruller! On special occasions, we would eat upstairs around a low pool, built like a Roman bath, surrounded by classical sculpture and massive columns, which was evocative for a young child and has appeared in many of my novels. By five years old, my mother took me on weekends from Queens to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, where I had painting lessons. I fell in love with art as soon as I could hold a crayon in my hand.
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