Yellow & Pink - Hardcover

Steig, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374386714 ISBN 13: 9780374386719

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2003

Synopsis

Steig’s witty dialectic on the nature of existence

About this title

About the Author:

Caldecott Medalist William Steig is the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Review:

“In Yellow & Pink . . . Steig has created a pair of characters who seem the embodiments of his bright esthetic. Named for the colors of their freshly painted costumes, Pink and Yellow are wooden dolls left out to dry in the sun. They are odd fellows, bumpkins, incorrigibles, clowns, countrymen of Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon, Laurel and Hardy. Philosophers both, they no sooner ‘awaken,’ come to life, than they begin to ponder by what means they might have arrived in this world. ‘How,’ Yellow demands . . . ‘could anyone make something like me, so intricate, so perfect? Or, for that matter, like you.’ . . . One marvels at the expressiveness, the nearness to animation, of Steig’s vibrant drawings.” – Leonard S. Marcus, The Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374386714
• ISBN 13: 9780374386719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Steig William