I love the way Crews uses the 'We' and the typeface not just to show the collective decision, but as part of the design too. The first spread where they are making the decision, the lines of text move left and right as he changes the indent, almost as you would look left and right and all around before choosing your path and setting out. Then for the rest of the story each line is slightly indented and he uses the w in 'We' at the beginning of many lines with the increasing indent to emphasize moving forward, except in the moment of indecision - "We should have taken the road" where it is positioned without an indent, and in the very last line, where the position and slope of the A in "And we never took the short-cut again" completely contrasts the direction of the preceding indented lines, all starting with W. Very cool to see the typography incorporated into the design of the graphic spreads in this way.
I was wondering if Shortcut was too scary for my toddler, but then I remembered he loves The Skull, which itself has a thrilling sequence with a repetitive threat
Donald Crews’ love for trains is so real. Big, fast, cool different cars, special sounds, colors. I bet he had some cool train toys too 🚂 This book is a THRILLER
This was so good. I had to wonder about whether they had been told about someone having a terrible accident walking the rails in the past, and so they realized what could have happened, and the risk they took, and why they would never tell mamma and bigmamma. Where was pappa, and big pappa…??
Please keep doing these forever
I may be reaching, but maybe “short-cut” is being used here to indicate that their lives could have been “cut short”?
I love the way Crews uses the 'We' and the typeface not just to show the collective decision, but as part of the design too. The first spread where they are making the decision, the lines of text move left and right as he changes the indent, almost as you would look left and right and all around before choosing your path and setting out. Then for the rest of the story each line is slightly indented and he uses the w in 'We' at the beginning of many lines with the increasing indent to emphasize moving forward, except in the moment of indecision - "We should have taken the road" where it is positioned without an indent, and in the very last line, where the position and slope of the A in "And we never took the short-cut again" completely contrasts the direction of the preceding indented lines, all starting with W. Very cool to see the typography incorporated into the design of the graphic spreads in this way.
I just wanted to share my favorite Halloween book: Hester by Byron Barton. A little witch in a big city.
I was wondering if Shortcut was too scary for my toddler, but then I remembered he loves The Skull, which itself has a thrilling sequence with a repetitive threat
Donald Crews’ love for trains is so real. Big, fast, cool different cars, special sounds, colors. I bet he had some cool train toys too 🚂 This book is a THRILLER
This was so good. I had to wonder about whether they had been told about someone having a terrible accident walking the rails in the past, and so they realized what could have happened, and the risk they took, and why they would never tell mamma and bigmamma. Where was pappa, and big pappa…??