THE BLOCK BOOK

by Susan Arkin Couture ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 1990

In sprightly verse by a Broadway lyricist, here's a childlike nonsense story about a couple of blocks, Betsy and Ben, who have compiled their own cozy but overcrowded home out of ""good junk""--some of which they use to build a new house for a neighbor after his burns down. Mather, whose vibrant, lucid art has been a pleasure as well as a critical success since Maria Theresa (1985), fills this appropriately small, square book with imaginative detail--unusual and decorative uses for the blocks' junk, intriguing labels (""First & Last Aid""), comic juxtapositions. Slight, perhaps, but deft and charming.

Pub Date: March 10, 1990

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 32

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 1990

Categories: CHILDREN'S