Seriously Norman! signed by Chris Raschka

Seriously Norman! by Chris Raschka, Mint copy in New Dust Jacket, signed by the author, 8 vo., Scholatic Press, 2011. (L2RB) Ages 8-12

“For that ambidextrous creature known as the author-illustrator — or at least for the best among them — story and art, like mind and body, are almost impossible to pull apart. Certainly, the visual and verbal sides of the Caldecott medalist Chris Raschka, whose prose and illustration come across as seamlessly and elegantly intertwined, make it hard to argue that a book’s text or illustration are entirely separate entities.

Raschka is known mostly for his picture books, but words have been essential to him too, in a minimalist way. His first book for older readers, “Seriously, Norman!” though dotted with black-and-white spot drawings, is a novel through and through, populated by outsize characters and driven — after a fashion — by story. Yes, this is a “real” novel, and it’s a very amusing one. But reading it is a visual, loopy, absurdist experience, not exactly like reading most novels, and less like looking at a picture than entering one.” —New York Times review

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