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A review by pwbalto
Lizard from the Park by Mark Pett
5.0
Mark Pett, Mark Pett, one of my new favorite illustrators Mark Pett! Best yet from Mark Pett, with soft fuzzy speckled backgrounds and sharp delicate type. A limited palette lets Mark Pett tell it all with mottling and light and shade, shifts in tone and spare lines that fade into being as necessary and then politely fade back out.
Color begins to seep into the book as Buster the lizard grows and grows. Leonard's solution for spiriting a giant lizard away from his apartment, while dramatic, is yet part and parcel of the quiet that suffuses this lovely book.
Bonus: Leonard and his lizard visit the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Public Library, and possibly Doughnut Plant in the East Village. Same places I go when I visit!
Color begins to seep into the book as Buster the lizard grows and grows. Leonard's solution for spiriting a giant lizard away from his apartment, while dramatic, is yet part and parcel of the quiet that suffuses this lovely book.
Bonus: Leonard and his lizard visit the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Public Library, and possibly Doughnut Plant in the East Village. Same places I go when I visit!