Word: buts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But unlike the Piper's troops, Lobel's keep reappearing and asking for more. He has responded with scores of books, and this season he presents Days with Frog and Toad (Harper & Row; $5.95), five short stories that teach the value of friendship, as well as the delights...
Goffstein is a minimalist, but her text and pictures carry the same emotional freight as William Blake's admonishment to see the world in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour.
The exaggeration is permissible; the paintings are by Leonard Baskin, and the highly charged text is by his children, Tobias, Lucretia and Hosie, and his wife Lisa. All of them are manifestly dazed by the artwork. With good reason. A renowned graphic artist and sculptor, Baskin Sr. limns a whole...
Anthropomorphism is Lobel's strength: all of his creatures appear to be good-natured humans in animal suits. In Tales of Oliver Pig (Dial; $5.89) he illustrates Jean Van Leeuwen's prose with a family of pigs whose siblings squabble, whose mother has bouts of sadness and whose...
The Peacock Party (Viking; $7.95), by Alan Aldridge with Harry Willock and George E. Ryder, is the season's most demanding work. The rhymes vary from one-syllable words to items like apogee and collation-an invitation to learning, but also to mystification. The illustrations are something else: portraits...