![]() ![]() Windmills spread their sails against a sky of constantly changing colors. With a more dynamic style than in many of his previous books ( Little's Frog's Song Jason and the Golden Fleece ), Fisher creates breathtaking views of canals and dikes, stunning for their simple graphics and dextrous use of light. ![]() Here they skated from December to March''), but the boldly colored acrylic paintings conjure up emotion and texture, adding real depth to the history of the town and its dike. The rhyming text is vacuous and the diction can be murky (``Here villagers fished in the summer parch. Exceptionally powerful illustrations honor the Dutch hamlet of Kinderdike, which, according to legend, was named after a baby who was found alive and well on a dike, having survived a fearful storm that caused enormous damage. ![]()
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