Yellow & Pink

Full-color pictures throughout
32 pages - Ages 5 up
$10.00
ISBN: 0-374-38671-4

Steig's witty dialectic on the nature of existence -- back in print.

In Yellow & Pink . . . Steig has created a pair of characters who seem the embodiments of his bright esthetic. Named for the colors of their freshly painted costumes, Pink and Yellow are wooden dolls left out to dry in the sun. They are odd fellows, bumpkins, incorrigibles, clowns, countrymen of Beckett's Vladimir and Estragon, Laurel and Hardy. Philosophers both, they no sooner "awaken," come to life, than they begin to ponder by what means they might have arrived in this world. "How," Yellow demands . . . "could anyone make something like me, so intricate, so perfect? Or, for that matter, like you." . . . One marvels at the expressiveness, the nearness to animation, of Steig's vibrant drawings.
--Leonard S. Marcus, The Washington Post Book World

Reviews

Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Steig is incomparable. Bravo! A yellow and a pink puppet lie in the sun, waiting for their paint to dry. They ponder their origin. They speculate. They debate. As soon as they've settled on a solution, a mysterious man unsettles their theory. Who is this man? The reader must decide."

Zena Sutherland, Chicago Tribune
"Original, witty, provocative."

Publishers Weekly
"A comic fable that has more clout than the most fervent homily."
 


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