Review: Bad Bye, Good Bye

Bad Bye, Good Bye by Deborah Underwood

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



For the words, the only thing about this book is the word play on badbye/goodbye. Underwood also did well at writing so the rhythm stayed clear. But I thought this was the sort of overdone topic and style that editors weren't supposed to be interested in even looking at anymore. "How about a book where a kid moves away from home, but learns to feel better--and it will rhyme!?" I guess once you've got a foot in the door and you have an editor you can pitch ideas the regular public couldn't even get an agent to look at.

Bean's illustrations were interesting to look at. The way he used blurred overlays and backgrounds around the main picture gave a feeling of movement, but not using the simple drawing technique of dynamic lines. This is reminiscent of Donald Crews, who made movement with similar techniques in books like [b:Shortcut|368196|Shortcut|Donald Crews|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388254903s/368196.jpg|3109645]. I felt not only movement, but also a cinematic feeling of many things happening or moving around the main figures in time with recently past images gradually fading and others coming into focus.



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