Catherine Meurisse

Hahahahaha. A Choose Your Own Adventure picture book. Or at least, I think it resembles that. As I read the book, I felt I was watching the scene in The Little Mermaid when Sebastian the crab was fleeing the French chef ;)

Seriously, this book is comical. It's about Lenny the Lobster who attends a dinner party. But there is more to this dinner party than meets the eye. ;)

I wish there had been more options for us to change the storyline as opposed to just one. Still, it is a start. Perhaps there will be more books similar to this one one day.… (more)

This is an essay by Alexandre Dumas about Eugène Delacroix adapted and illustrated by Catherine Meurisse. Dumas thought very highly of Delacroix, but his words aren't exactly riveting. Meurisse's cartoons illustrating scenes from the text are amusing, but her impressionistic watercolor versions of Delacroix's paintings are abominable and give not the slightest hint at the beauty of the originals.

Skip this one unless you have a burning to desire to know what Dumas thought of Delacroix.

Received via NetGalley.… (more)