Share these familiar
shapes with your baby.

It is never too early
to look and talk
together!

Guided by the same precepts as those inspiring Dick Witt's Let'sLook at Animals and Let's Look at My World (see review above),Hoban creates two stylish board books using only black and white.One volume drops out clearly recognizable shapes from black ground(a sailboat, a bird, a flower and so forth appear in white); theother sets black objects against white ground. The black in bothbooks is shiny enough to reflect images on facing pages. White onBlack may be more dramatic, but Black on White is more varied,alternating solid shapes (leaf, fork and spoon) with patterned orstencil-like images (butterfly, spectacles). Hoban's compositionsare so supple and her layouts so well balanced that she casts akind of spell; it's as if the color and black-and-white segments ofthe Wizard of Oz were reversed, with the ordinary seeming somehowmagical. Ages 6 mos.-up.
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