And then we have all the books,

This is the first time that a major art museum has shown his work.

My favorite part of the exhibit, ... is the 'Outside Over There' original drawings, because I can see where he has changed from a more cartoon aspect. It really looks like an opera set, and he has taken from what he's working on in 'The Magic Flute' and put it in this book. It's a complete change of approach to children's book illustration.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

My goal is to make sure (children's) books address a whole range of emotions, ... There are too many books that are too sweet, too saccharine. Everyone is happy, everything is good, everything is fine. And that's just not real life.

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison matron, possibly at Buchenwald. She had the requisite sadism, paranoia and taste for violence.