Great Read, Great Illustrations

The Circus Ship
By Chris Van Dusen

I was at Half Price Books the other day and saw Chris Van Dusen's book on the shelf. I'd read it before from the library, and wanted it for my home collection. The story is inspired by an actual event and written in verse.

I read it again last night to my kids, and took particular notice of the wonderful perspective driven illustrations. I've been working very hard at figuring out top-down perspective with the added flavor of foreshortening. Not so easy! I really admire and appreciate Van Dusen's work.

Not only is the story awesome and the illustrations inspiring, but through out the story it's fun to find the animals. He's good at hiding them within his pages.

Perspective!
The Circus Ship By Chris Van Dusen