Long Long Song

"As I was going along, long, long/A-singing a comical song, song, song." The landscape of this pictorial expansion on a nursery rhyme is that of the pure imagination. Delessert dips his brush in the open-ended paint pot of a Hieronymous Bosch or a surrealist artist to produce a dimension where mythical creatures roam and where the line is blurred between the real and the unreal, the human and the animal-like, the credible and the impossible. Clearly, the most interesting aspect of this is that such a free-floating world is precisely one that children find most appealing. This extraordinary interpretation is radically personal. The astonishing vistas may inspire readers to do a little interpreting on their own.Delessert, Etienne is the author of 'Long Long Song' with ISBN 9780374346386 and ISBN 0374346380.