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Tamara Shopsin
\nWhat is this?<\/strong>
\nLos Angeles, The Ice Plant, 2015
\n8,9 x 10,6 cm
\n40 p.
\nISBN:  978-0-9897859-4-5<\/p>\n

It\u2019s never too early to learn about abstraction \u2014 especially if celebrated illustrator Tamara Shopsin is doing the teaching. What Is This?<\/em> is a wordless children\u2019s book that will encourage imaginative thinking in readers young and old. The miniature book, made for small hands, is filled with simple line drawings, executed with characteristic charm by Shopsin. Each drawing playfully adds to and alters the same basic squiggle, which is transformed across different contexts on each successive page: first the squiggle appears as the petals of a flower; next as a bird\u2019s nest, then a cowboy\u2019s lasso, then a plume of smoke from a factory chimney. Each time, only a few extra lines are required to suggest the conversion. By the end of the book, faced with an innocent squiggle, the question is not \u201cwhat is this?,\u201d but rather, \u201cwhat isn\u2019t this?\u201d<\/p>\n

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