Jesse Klausmeier, illus. by Suzy Lee. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6783-2
Klausmeier’s debut is more conceptual novelty than story. The book opens to reveal a series of nested “books,” brightly colored covers that become smaller and smaller as readers work toward the center. “Open this... Little Red Book,” it starts, with
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Suzy Lee, Author . Chronicle $15.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8118-5924-0
Lee's (The Zoo) wordless two-color picture book will charm even readers who have never seen the postwar classics her work explicitly recalls. In it, a mostly solitary girl, conjured with a few broad charcoal strokes, encounters the ocean, all...
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Suzy Lee, Author . Seven Footer Kids $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-934734-39-1
The creator of the joyful Wave
returns with a provocative wordless book that is tall and thin like its namesake. First seen sitting alone and anguished in a corner, a dark-haired girl notices her reflection on the opposite page (the book's...
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Suzy Lee, Chronicle, $15.99 (44p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7280-5
In a nearly wordless, nearly monochrome fantasy, a straight-haired girl—perhaps the same exuberant heroine of Lee's Wave—finds a secret world in the shadows cast by the light bulb in a storage room. The pages are meant to flip from bottom to top....
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Suzy Lee, Author, Suzy Lee, Illustrator Kane/Miller Book Publishers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-933605-28-9
This story of a girl who gets lost at the zoo draws its energy from a collection of contrasts. The text, told in the girl's voice, is deadpan; the pencil illustrations provide the punch lines. The girl's parents' world appears as a tinted blue-gray;
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Suzy Lee. Chronicle, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-5665-1
As she did in Wave and Shadow, Lee explores the possibilities of the picture book as she draws a parallel between a solitary figure skater and the solitary artist who sketches her. The skater soars across the white pages, etching sinuous lines on...
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