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associative thinking
Author_Jason Fulford
Author_Tamara Shopsin
Category=YBL
cause and effect
children's picture books
colors
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imagination
numbers
shapes
thought and thinking
visual language
visual literacy
whimsical journey
Product details
- ISBN 9781597112888
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 197 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Aperture
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Aimed at children aged five and up, this clever and surprising picture book by artists and collaborators, Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin, take young viewers on a whimsical journey while teaching them associative thinking and visual language, as well as colors, shapes, and numbers. Through a simple narrative and rhythmic sequence of photographs, the book raises multiple meanings, making the experience of reading the book interactive—parent and child must ask questions and come up with their own answers, drawing on the child’s imagination. Each spread presents a new relationship that changes and shifts as the book unfolds, with the last picture relating again to the first, forming a circle. Through playful and inspired sequencing, everyday scenes are transformed into a game of pairs, enjoyable for adults and children alike.
Jason Fulford is a photographer and cofounder of the non-profit publisher J&L Books. He has lectured at more than a dozen art schools and universities and is a contributing editor to Blind Spot magazine. Fulford's photographs have been featured in Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Blind Spot, Aperture, and on book jackets for Don DeLillo, John Updike, Bertrand Russell, Jorge Luis Borges, Terry Eagleton, Ernest Hemingway and Richard Ford. His published books include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010) and Hotel Oracle (2013). Tamara Shopsin is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Good, Time, Wired, and Newsweek. She has designed book jackets for authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Lindbergh, and Vladimir Nabokov. Two volumes of her drawings have been published under the titles "C est le Pied!" and "C est le Pied II". In her spare time she creates and sells novelties and cracks eggs at her family's restaurant in New York, Shopsip's. She is currently a 2012 fellow with the nonprofit Code for America.
