![]() ![]() Iwamura’s sweet-faced, gently rounded figures are painted in soft watercolors that contrast nicely with Carle’s more vibrant palette. ![]() Carle’s figures are created with his recognizably bold collage technique. When the Carle characters and the Iwamura characters meet in the middle, they merge and mingle in a merry frolic. This works ingeniously because the Iwamura story is told from back to front and right to left as is typical of Japanese books. The boy and girl greet each other with hands extended in symbolic greeting. At the middle, the story is joined in a broad open-out, four-page spread by Iwamura’s story that is a mirror image of Carle’s, the exception being that the child in Carle’s story is a boy and Iwamura’s is a girl. What makes this book singular is that Carle’s characters are marching along from front to back, left to right, in typical Western style. In a simple cumulative tale of friendship, a dog, a cat, a rooster, a goat, a rabbit, and a child repeatedly pose the question and answer of the title. A unique venture between two friends, who happen to be famous artists. ![]()
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