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    Ebook38 pages7 minutes

    What Can I Be?

    By Ann Rand and Ingrid King

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    About this ebook

    Unearthed after nearly forty years, What Can I Be?, a stunning concept book written by Ann Rand and illustrated by Ingrid King, is sure to delight children with its superb graphics and vivid palette. Triangles, squares, circles, lines, and colors spring to life in various and creative formations as they ask, "What can I be?" A green triangle asks to become a tent, a kite, a Christmas tree, or the sail of a boat, or why not all of these things?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781616895037
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    What Can I Be?
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    Ann Rand

    Ann Rand (1918–2007) trained as an architect at IIT, where she studied with Mies van der Rohe. She was the author of several children's books: Little 1, Sparkle and Spin, and I Know a Lot of Things.

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    • 3/5
      A visually arresting concept book from Ann Rand (NOT to be confused with Ayn Rand, the novelist), a mid-twentieth-century picture-book author whose work has recently been experiencing something of a revival, after being out of print for many years, What Can I Be? offers an exploration of color and shape, as the narrator asks the reader what various items could be. What can be made from something round and red? What about something thin (or thick) and straight?Although most of Rand's books were published from the 1950s through the 1970s, this one remained unpublished until 2016, four years after its author's death. The artwork, appropriately enough since this title is published by the Princeton Architectural Press, is contributed by expatriate Norwegian architect Ingrid Fiksdahl King. Although not always the greatest fan of concept book - truthfully, I often find them rather boring, from a narrative perspective - I did enjoy this book, and thought that King's illustrations were quite engrossing. I enjoyed her use of color and shape, in the more geometric spreads, but it was the stylized folk-art feeling scenes, such as the one involving the snake, that I particularly loved. Recommended to anyone looking for engaging concept books about colors and shapes, and about using one's imagination, when envisioning patterns and how to recognize and combine them.