Stripe Island
CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK
Stripe Island
tupera tupera
Thames & Hudson, $20
3 and a half stars
Review: William Yeoman
Check out the stripetastic singing bears, Professor Stripe’s super-stripy machine that makes super-useful stripy stuff and all manner of other stripy delights at the Festival of Stripes on Stripe Island! tupera tupera is a Japan-based husband-and-wife design team whose latest book takes you on a psychedelic tour through young Stanley’s stripy world where everything and everyone is made up of stripes of every size and colour. As cut-out-style creatures from giant elephants to tiny caterpillars cavort over stripy canvases, the eye dances with them and some of the spreads can only be described as symphonic. Sure to appeal to children and adults of all stripes.
