Welcome to Litsy!

Gertrude Stein‘s puzzling poem, the title of this #picturebook, is from Tender Buttons. The words make more sense to me when I see them as a story told through Bianca Stone‘s whimsical illustrations. The single mother and daughter relationship is richly portrayed, and I also love the sense of queer community that we can see on the occasion of a party for little Pauline‘s birthday. Lots of white space gives the text emphasis. A treat for #AllAges.

Gertrude Stein was a really amazing, wild poet. She liked to use sentences in new ways that looked different than other people‘s. ‘Why not try saying something silly while saying something serious?‘ she must have thought. ‘Let‘s get people to think about words differently because they have to when they read my poems!‘
-from the illustrator‘s afterword

Perfect picture book design includes pretty endpapers. #endpaperlove

Is it just me? I just don‘t get it. I really want to, but I just don‘t 🙈🙁