![]() ![]() Indeed, having Rowe do a book injects a bit of the NoBrow aesthetic into the Toon Books line: clear, bright and colorful. That makes Rowe's spectacular and varied use of color in particular a crucial part of the storytelling. This is a Level 1 Toon Book, so it's aimed at emerging readers, and thus the dialogue is quite simple and limited. The book consists of her losing her broken heart and chasing a variety of characters who briefly wind up with it, including dolphins, birds, a paper airplane, and a king and queen. Like a film beginning its narrative with credits rolling over it, so does Hearts set up its book-long chase sequence with protagonist Penelope the fox having her heart broken when her friend leaves on a rocketship. ![]() It's an elegant and beautiful approach that compensates for the slight stiffness of its figures with a propulsive, exciting story. ![]() Hearts, which was created by Thereza Rowe, features characters put together with cut paper on the page. Each book is visually distinctive in its own way. The two most recent books from Francoise Mouly's publishing collaboration with Candlewick Press, Hearts and Tippy and the Night Parade, are no exception. ![]() Second, they are rock-solid in terms of comics storytelling fundamentals. First, the design has always been impeccable, making each book its own little unique art object. The hardcover comics aimed at new readers from Toon Books have always uniformly done two things well. ![]()
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