Claymates
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Meet the claymates: two balls of clay that can become anything--even best friends!
What can you do with two blobs of clay? Create something amazing! But don't leave them alone for too long. Things might get a little crazy.
In this photographic friendship adventure, the claymates squish, smash, and sculpt themselves into the funniest shapes imaginable. But can they fix a giant mess before they're caught in the act?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two lumps of clay one gray, one brown, both with big, googly eyes sit on an artist's worktable, waiting to find out what they're going to become. "Probably something wonderful," says the gray lump. Human hands painstakingly sculpt them into a wolf and an owl (Owl: "That took a really long time"; Wolf: "And it was sooooo boring"), then depart, at which point the creations realize that they don't need someone else to give shape to their imaginations. The gray clay reshapes itself into a short-snouted "pig-e-elephant" while the brown clay goes from being a giant peanut to a splendid peacock; in another sequence, they see who can transform into the flattest or smallest species. Composed of photographs arranged in comics-style panels, this book initially seems like an odd duck: a story about claymation, minus the animation? But it works: Petty's (I Don't Want to Be Big) punchy, dialogue-only narrative and newcomer Eldridge's expressive sculpture give these clay buddies a surplus of personality their self-reinventions and attempts at one-upmanship are a giddy mix of naive and naughty. Ages 4 8.
