Sitting in the library today with two of my boys at Pokemon club (awesome!) and saw this one on the shelf. What a fun biographical picture book! It is pretty much the Bob Dylan story as told through his lyrics. I learn so much every time I pic up someone's book! It is funny. I was raised in an environment where your art was perfect realism, or it wasn't "good" art. How sad! Everytime I pic up a picture book I realize how wonderful non-realism is. In my own work, I constantly have to fight the "realism is the only good art" demon. I haven't done art my whole life because I thought it had to be a perfect representation of the real world. Then I discovered picture books. What a reawakening to the art world! Loved the art in this one. The colors are cool and really help you feel the time period. And, I loved that at the end of the book you get a hyper-focused explanation of each illustration which sheds so much light on the artistic decisions, and Dylan's life. Soooo cool!
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