Cristina Plays
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
Inside this surreal picture book, Cristina plays, Cristina cleans and Cristina dances.
Cristina explores ordinary tasks like eating and tidying and makes curious discoveries before tumbling into sleep and visiting a fantastical dream world. Cristina Plays sweeps the reader into a clever game where Cristina might be a toy rabbit in a doll house or the child playing with it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Differently scaled settings invite connective bedtime play in this frolicsome work from Chirif (A Sleepless Night) and Ortiz (The Love of the Moonlight). On the opening spread, a small white rabbit, Cristina, sits at a table upon which has been set a comparatively enormous tangerine. A page later, the bunny relaxes across a living room from a teapot whose size rivals that of the sofa—and two sugar cubes whose scale is suggested by two munching ants. In a tuck-in scene, the arrival of a pale-skinned, black-haired child glimpsed through the bedroom window reveals that Cristina resides in a dollhouse. But the bunny's removal to a blanket fort on the child's human-size bed offers further intrigue. Within the coverlet, the duo is rendered as about the same height, and they move together through a dreamlike series of evening scenes until a narrative shift, and a second tuck-in, suggests that the title's Cristina might not be the rabbit, after all. Reportorial text and bright, layered digital patterns result in a smartly worked telling of epic proportions that puts child and stuffie on the same level. Ages 3–5.
