Anonymouse
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Animal-friendly street art is popping up all over the city, but who is creating these masterpieces? There is no explanation, only a name: Anonymouse. For fans of Sidewalk Flowers and Art & Max.
Art for the birds.
Art for the ants.
Art for the dogs, cats and raccoons.
Art to make them laugh, make them think, make them feel at home.
But who is creating it?
Only Anonymouse knows for sure . . .
This clever tale mixes street art, animals and gorgeous illustrations to create a meditation on how art can uplift any creature's spirit -- human or animal -- when it speaks directly to them. Every page of Anna Pirolli's stunning artwork is its own masterpiece with its bold pops of colour and sly humor, elevating Vikki VanSickle's subtle but evocative text.
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Move over, Banksy there's a new single-name, never-seen street artist in town. His tag is Anonymouse, and his work, executed in pink spray paint, has a very particular audience in mind: the animals trying to eke out an existence in an often hostile urban landscape. Pirolli's (I Hate My Cats ) poetic digital artwork shows how Anonymouse turns a cluster of rooftop satellite dishes into large pink blossoms, attracting the admiration of birds and pollinators; paints targets on the bases of lamp posts to tickle the canine community's funny bones; and offers pointed jabs at humans, spray-painting tall leafy shadows onto a wall to mourn two felled trees whose absence denies a home to squirrels. Anonymouse eventually moves on, and "the art faded, became obscured or disappeared completely," writes VanSickle (Teddy Bear of the Year) but his art's affirmation of the animals' lives isn't forgotten. The animals "looked at the city in a whole new way" and take up his artistic mantle. It's a thoroughly original fable about art's revitalizing power, and the capacity of all living things to yearn for and create joy. Ages 3 7.
