A layered picture book constructed around thirteen interlocking visual narratives. On each spread, multiple stories unfold simultaneously and invite the reader (or pre-reader) to roam back and forth, discover overlaps, and reassemble meaning. Published by Parents’ Magazine Press, New York.
Condition: Very good
Remy Charlip (1929–2012) was an American artist, choreographer, and children’s author. Born in Brooklyn, he began his career as a painter before turning to the stage as a founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Paper Bag Players, a children’s theater group that specializes in improvisations on topics like bath time and homework. He went on to publish 29 rambunctiously imaginative and gorgeously illustrated children’s books.
Author and illustrator Jerry Joyner (1938-2019) studied illustration with writer and artist Edward Gorey and later worked as a designer and illustrator with luminaries Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast at the legendary Push Pin Studios, founded in 1954. Charlip and Joyner sketched, traded, and improvised the book together across time and place over the course of nine years.
approx. 10 1/4” x 7.5”x.5”
A layered picture book constructed around thirteen interlocking visual narratives. On each spread, multiple stories unfold simultaneously and invite the reader (or pre-reader) to roam back and forth, discover overlaps, and reassemble meaning. Published by Parents’ Magazine Press, New York.
Condition: Very good
Remy Charlip (1929–2012) was an American artist, choreographer, and children’s author. Born in Brooklyn, he began his career as a painter before turning to the stage as a founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Paper Bag Players, a children’s theater group that specializes in improvisations on topics like bath time and homework. He went on to publish 29 rambunctiously imaginative and gorgeously illustrated children’s books.
Author and illustrator Jerry Joyner (1938-2019) studied illustration with writer and artist Edward Gorey and later worked as a designer and illustrator with luminaries Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast at the legendary Push Pin Studios, founded in 1954. Charlip and Joyner sketched, traded, and improvised the book together across time and place over the course of nine years.
approx. 10 1/4” x 7.5”x.5”