I Love It When You Smile
Written by Sam McBratney and Illustrated by Charles Fuge
Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2005
From the bestselling author of Guess How Much I Love You, comes a masterpiece guaranteed to make you smile! Charles Fuge is the illustrator of Sometimes I Like To Curl Up In A Ball by Vicki Churchill.
Little Roo woke up and feeling grumpy. His mother tried everything to make him smile, but nothing she did would perk up little Roo. On the way to breakfast, the couple comes across a deep muddy hole and there is found a smile.
I really enjoyed this book. I thought the story was quite true to life. Every word made the story progress to the end. The story clearly communicated that the funniest little things that tend to go wrong can be funny. The watercolor / colored pencil illustrations are truly beautiful. The kangaroos look so silky you just want to reach out and touch them! Their eyes are so expressive and warm. I love how the illustrations switch back and forth between full spreads and partial spreads. What I mean is the sky in the landscape is not always rendered in. Sometimes there is sky and sometimes it is just white space. It would be an insult to the viewer to always paint in the sky. Instead, this is a perfect place to put the text in the white space.
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