Synopsis
Seasons come, seasons go. But a little brown bunny and a graceful blue bird discover that friendship, true friendship, lasts forever.
The New York Times - Jim McMullan
The appeal of this book lies in its elegantly designed collage pictures. Berger plays textures like tree bark, block-printed leaves and chunks of typography against airy backgrounds of graph paper, exercise-book pages and blocks of simple color. Trees and flowers embellish the pages with the freshness of those beautiful Japanese prints decorated with boughs of cherry blossoms. The trajectories of the sveltely shaped animals (Matisse comes to mind) as they fly and hop in their play are described in dotted lines that swoop and bounce around the pages like science diagrams that went to art school. The effect is aesthetically refined but also warm. Berger adds little details, like a sliver of pink in the rabbit's ear, that lift the image off the page both graphically and emotionally…