Palazzo Inverso (Hardcover)

By D.B. Johnson
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Description

Johnson channels M.C. Escher in this delightful picture book. With its continuous narrative and illustrations that can be viewed upside down, this book allows readers to flip over at the last page and read all the way back to the beginning. Full color.

About the Author

D.B. Johnson has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years, during which time he has drawn upon the influence and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau to create the highly-acclaimed, bestselling Henry series. In a similar fashion, Palazzo Inverso is inspired by the work of M. C. Escher, whose ideas and drawings of impossible buildings with multiple points of view, tesselations, reflections, continuous loops, and interlocking positive and negative space have been fascinating spectators since the mid-1900s. D.B. Johnson and his wife, Linda Michelin, live in New Hampshire.

Praise for Palazzo Inverso…

"An undeniably impressive bit of optical trickery with an even neater narrative flip at the conclusion."--Booklist

"M.C. Escher's grayscale tessellations and stairways-to-nowhere set the stage for this inspired adventure by Johnson (the Henry series)...The written tale, of Mauk defying gravity to evade punishment, unifies the perspective-busting illustrations, which acquire new meanings on the inverted run-through. Johnson's optical illusions salute Escher and establish a clever slapstick sequence."--Publishers Weekly

Product Details ISBN-13: 9780547239996
Published: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 05/03/2010
Pages: 32