Hugo and Miles In I've Painted Everything
By Scott Magoon
(Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Hardcover, 9780618646388, 32pp.)
Publication Date: April 2007
Categories: Animals - Elephants, Art (painting sculpture artists architecture etc.)
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What happens when a very creative artist runs out of things to paint? Just runs out—as in, he’s painted everything!
Hugo, the artist in question, is in an elephunk, so he and his friend Miles leave Cornville for a whirlwind trip to Paris. They visit museums, parks, and landmarks. So what does happen when a very creative artist runs out of things to paint? Well, he begins to see things in a very different way . . .
SCOTT MAGOON is an art director who has written and illustrated several acclaimed picture books, including Hugo and Miles in I've Painted Everything. He lives in Reading, Massachusetts.
The cartoon illustrations, rendered in pencil and digitally colored, provide an ample supply of visual jokes. . . . The myriad subjects of Hugo's paintings are quite amusing, and there are disguised works by Raphael, Hals, Van Gogh, and others in the museums. . . . Can spark a discussion about new ways to see everyday objects.
School Library Journal
Pencil and digitally colored illustrations add whimsical details--like an art-stealing raccoon--to the wordplay. . . . Charming.
Booklist, ALA
Selected for as a "Reading right" book for beach or bedtime.
New York Post
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