Up, Down and Other Opposites with Ellsworth Kelly - ADVISABLE

Kaiser, Cecily Up, Down and Other Opposites with Ellsworth Kelly BOARD BOOK Phaidon, 2018. $11. Content: G.  978-0714876290

This is a book of opposites using the abstract art of Ellsworth Kelly.  The page spread has two pictures that have something similar but are opposites.  For example, one page has a huge black square and the other has lots of tiny squares.  As far as opposites board books go, this one isn’t your traditional one word opposite text.  The author sometimes explains why they are opposites or uses sentences like she is talking to the shapes.  

This is a part of the First Concepts with Fine Artists series.  The pictures are cool and the text is entertaining.  One confusing page was there is one picture that looks rough, but this isn’t a texture book and it says “Watch out, fingers!  This looks very rough.” That said, it’s fun to look for concepts, like opposites, in an artist’s work.  

PRE-K – ADVISABLE.  Reviewer, C. Peterson.