Word: honfleur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honfleur" for example is a relatively simple harbor scene with two sailboats, one red, one blue, at the right foreground, but the painting is not just pretty. When Binet paints this kind of subject, one hears a chatter of Edwardian polite conversation. With Malet, though, though, it is the screaming gull one imagines...
...tent. Too many children's books present lumpily massive, poster-hued semi-primitive drawings that intrigue for only one or two cheerful skim-throughs. Spier, by contrast, spends months accumulating visual research and folios of tiny sketches for his subjects. When he shows the 19th century harbor of Honfleur (in Hurrah, We're Outward Bound!) or the 18th century Thameside (in London Bridge Is Falling Down!), he knows as much about the shops and ships, the rigs and ragamuffins as a sharp eye and a keen mind can acquire. The result encourages young (and old) to brood upon...