How to Read a Book
July 2nd, 2019 by jules
I’ve a review over at BookPage of Kwame Alexander’s How to Read a Book (Harper, June 2019), illustrated by Melissa Sweet. That review is here, and today at 7-Imp I’ve some art from the book. Melissa also shares some process images, for which I thank her.
Enjoy!
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until the last drop of magic drips from the infinite sky …”
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HOW TO READ A BOOK. Text copyright © 2019 by Kwame Alexander. Illustrations © 2019 by Melissa Sweet and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York. All other images reproduced by permission of Melissa Sweet.
Thank you, Jules! It’s always a treat to be a part of 7-imp. Melissa
Wooooooooooooooooooow.
The artwork is just INTENSE here, and making it looked like it took a lot of …tilting the head sideways and figuring out how to make words dance and shimmy along the page. This is wonderful combination of poet & illustrator.