Yo! Yes?

* Raschka, Chris. Yo! Yes? New York: Orchard Books, 1993.

This is the enchantingly simple story of a conversation that becomes a friendship.

How do the pictures tell the story?

It is impressive to see how language that is simple, entirely monosyllabic, and limited to one or two words a page can be so expressive and finely crafted. Likewise, the illustrations feature nothing more than the same two kids on each spread, yet manage to create an engaging narrative interaction based only on variations in expression and posture. The watercolour and charcoal illustrations are strong, playful, emotionally expressive and inseperable from the text, and even the text becomes part of the overall visual effect.

A Caldecott Honor book.