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HOLE, SOFT MOLE Selected by the Society of Illustrators for display in the "Original Art 1996" exhibit |
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PUBLISHED
BY Harcourt
Brace & Company WRITTEN BY Carolyn Lesser ILLUSTRATED BY Laura Regan $16.00 us - $21.00 can ages 4 - 8 FROM FRONT FLAP COPY: Dig hole, soft mole - deep in the earth, where roots reach and worms squirm. Burrow through until you reach the cool blue pond, then dive down and swim with the fish! |
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 Artwork © 1996 Laura Regan - Text copyright © 1996 Carolyn Lesser |
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Publisher's Weekly: Dense, tactile rhyming couplets and serene paintings transport readers through the twin worlds of the star-nosed mole, which flourishes in water as well as in ground. While Mole may travel nearly blind, readers' eyes will feast on Regan's(Sun song, Welcome to the Green House) softly textured, pristinely composed oiland gouache illustrations. Mole visits, variously, a lumpy, purplish-brown tunnel,where spooky bulb roots drape the ceilings ("Starry nose feels and goes./ Hidden ears hear wood frog toes"); murky-blue water, where snails sway on leafy pondweed("Pulling feet, sculling tail,/Furry boat without a sail"); daylit marsh with "twiggy domes"and cattails, muskrats and blackbirds; and indigo night, where white water lilies shine and a "ghostly swan" drifts. this lyrical, read-aloud romance will endear Mole and hisunderworld to children: it may even mellow the exurbanite's perfectly rational mole-malice. |
 © 1996 Laura Regan |
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