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Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. While Alvin mopes in his room because he thinks everyone's forgotten his birthday, strange things seem to be going on right outside the window.
An assortment of wild, wacky beasts are parading by--a pig wearing a wig, a goat in a polka-dotted coat.
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The Preposterous Rhinoceros
Jan 11, Rebekah rated it did not like it Shelves: I 'collect' stories about Rhinos. Rachel Edwards rated it did not like it May 09, Holly Boothe rated it liked it Jun 07, Beatrice rated it it was ok Jul 14, Denita rated it it was ok Jan 29, Liz rated it it was ok Apr 06, Melany rated it liked it Apr 21, Shelley Trick rated it liked it Oct 10, Mellanie C rated it really liked it Aug 27, Hobbies and other interests: Home renovation, reading, listening to music, bike riding, cats, movies. Teresa Benzwie, Moving Experience: Beginning his career as a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in such well-known periodicals as Billboard magazine, Psychology Today, and the New York Times, Robert Bender has gone on to success as a children's book author and illustrator.
His unique technique—applying vinyl paint to both sides of a clear sheet of acetate, then laying that over a black background—has drawn the attention of several critics; according to a Publishers Weekly contributor, the technique creates a "lush, luminous, almost otherworldly" effect that can be seen in such books as Barnyard Song, A Most Unusual Lunch, and Toads and Diamonds. As Bender admitted to Publishers Weekly interviewer Elizabeth Devereaux, his techniques are "extremely unusual—they're not the things that people teach you.
Noting that "if five-year-olds ran publishing companies," "funny, breezy stories" like A Most Unusual Lunch would not be so rare, a Publishers Weekly reviewer wrote that the artwork illustrating Bender's simple introduction to the food chain contains "zany creatures [that] seem as though they could pop right off the page. Bender first tried his hand at a children's book in , when he illustrated a story by his future wife, Christina Bothwell.
Other books by Bender include The A to Z Beastly Jamboree, an alphabet book that features an animal and an action verb for each letter of the alphabet.
Created using shades of grays and browns shot through with lime green and hues of purple, "Bender's art combines a gentle fuzziness with luminosity," noted a Publishers Weekly contributor, adding that the pages of The A to Z Beastly Jamboree provide "a suitably unearthly setting for these offbeat beasties. A retelling of a fairy tale by seventeenth-century French writer Charles Perrault, Toads and Diamonds is the story of a widow who lives with two daughters in a deep wood.
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Merth is a pleasant girl, while her sister Bleacha is as unpleasant as her widowed mother. When Merth aids a three-headed troll who is horrible-looking times three, she is rewarded with a magic enchantment that causes diamonds and other precious stones to fall from her lips whenever she sings. Bleacha shows less kindness and tact when she too crosses the troll's path; her reward, in typical fairy-tale fashion, is to spit out toads, snakes, and nasty insects.
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A Publishers Weekly reviewer noted that Bender's illustrations for Toads and Diamonds approach a "dreamlike" quality, although his "prose needs polish. Children's Ideas of a Perfect World Bender follows the lead of Art Linkletter and goes directly to the source—children—to capture a kid's-eye view of the world. In Lima Beans Would Be Illegal utopias run the gamut from a place where stuffed animals come alive and bathing suits don't fall off at the beach to a world where there are no such thing as good-byes and people never get sick with cancer or other diseases.
Praising the book as an "appealing fantasy," School Library Journal reviewer Anne Knickerbocker also dubbed Bender's artwork "whimsical. With comments ranging from the "authentic and funny" to "poignant," according to School Library Journal reviewer Ellen Heath, the book also engages readers of all ages with Bender's colorful and "comical" illustrations. In addition to illustrating his own work, Bender has also continued to illustrate the work of others. Regarding the development of his illustration technique, Bender more recently explained: I'm a hands-on kind of guy. I always loved handling the physical materials.
I wasn't too busy at the time, however, so I thought I would check it out anyway. He let me use his Photoshop program, and I ended up sitting there for five hours.