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Visually, Whiting’s picture-book debut is a charmer. . . engaging. —Kirkus Reviews

Whiting illustrates in naturalistic oil paintings, with the winsome, minimalist Lonely Bird collaged into the spreads. Reminiscent of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, the story’s drama unfolds at the margins of human domesticity and never shakes off its tender melancholy. —Publishers Weekly Visually, Whiting’s picture-book debut is a charmer. . . engaging. —Kirkus Reviews The publisher suggests this book for ages 4-8, but the 2-dimensional hero will appeal to a dreamy high schooler, too. . . Whiting has illustrated how an artist might work alone, but she isn’t working in a vacuum. Her creativity engages the larger, humane world. —The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Whiting illustrates in naturalistic oil paintings, with the winsome, minimalist Lonely Bird collaged into the spreads. Reminiscent of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, the story’s drama unfolds at the margins of human domesticity and never shakes off its tender melancholy. —Publishers Weekly Visually, Whiting’s picture-book debut is a charmer. . . engaging. —Kirkus Reviews

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Ruth Whiting is an artist and maker with a diverse body of work. For Lonely Bird, she created elaborate stage sets that she photographed and rendered as oil paintings. Born in England to Australian parents, her travels and history are reflected in her art: the house Lonely Bird lives in is an echo of her childhood lived across three continents, and the striped patch used to mend the character Wigglet is made from a French electrical tape the illustrator became attached to when she lived in Paris as a child. Ruth Whiting and her husband, the artist and kite designer Tim Elverston, now live in Florida with their son.

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