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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2011
This near-perfect concept book incorporates an imaginative exploration of colors, a nice assortment of vivid words, and the transformational possibilities of a simple-seeming square. After defining his flat red protagonist both graphically and verbally, Hall personifies it ("it was perfectly happy"), adds a border-exceeding smile, and presages fanciful flights to come by imbuing its basic red with a more nuanced texture. On Monday, cut into tangram-style pieces and punched with hol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More