“I FEEL A FOOT!” by Maranke Rinck and Martijn van der Linden – Review

I Feel a Foot! by Maranke Rinck and Martijn van der Linden

Maranke Rinck and Martijn van der Linden of the Netherlands offer a different approach to a similar topic in “I Feel a Foot!.” In an adaptation of an old Sufi tale (perhaps most familiar to American children from Ed Young’s 1993 Caldecott Honor title, “Seven Blind Mice”), Turtle, Bat, Octopus, Bird and Goat all explore various parts of a patient pachyderm with predictably different results. A jaunty text carries the story from first guess (”a super big turtle”) to last (”A fantastically, amazingly extra superduper big goat”) before elephant asserts himself with a tremendous bellow. Jewel-toned collage illustrations set against a flat black background create an eye-popping counterpoint to the text and are a harbinger of the all-fabric hand-sewn edition planned for later this fall.

Washington Post Book Reviews – “I FEEL A FOOT!” – ArcaMax Publishing.