The Lost Cousins

by B. B. Cronin

Overview

From the wildly original creator of The Lost House comes an around-the-world seek-and-find adventure!

Grandad and his grandchildren are looking at an old photo album when Grandad realizes the children have never met their cousins who are scattered across the globe. It's time to head off on an adventure to go visit them—but finding the long-lost cousins is harder than it sounds! From icy landscapes to bustling cities to vivid jungles, it seems Grandad's got relatives everywhere, and these dazzling spreads are full of both cousins and objects for readers to find. With a dizzying array of dazzling spreads, this is the most global and adventurous LOST book yet and will keep kids (and their adults) entertained for hours on end!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451479082
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	10/08/2019
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	704,507
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 12.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

B.B. Cronin is a visual artist. He is originally from Dublin, Ireland, where he studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he shares a house with the artist Juliette Borda. Visit him on Facebook or at www.briancronin.com.

Editorial Reviews

"All great picture books make you see the world in a new way, but B.B. Cronin’s “The Lost Cousins” really pushes the envelope. It’s a tour de force work of psychedelia for kids, playfully dense and almost radical in its juxtapositions of eye-popping fluorescent colors." -New York Times, Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2019

From the Publisher

2019-07-24
Grandad, Esmé, and Tate search for their cousins in this latest outing from Cronin.

As Grandad peruses a photo album, Esmé and Tate discover photos (reproduced in the frontispiece for visual reference) of "long-lost" cousins Yuki, Jada, Awan, and Luis. The intrepid trio set out to find the cousins, traveling by boat to the icy place where Yuki lives in a fanciful, three-story igloo and then by train, looking for Awan in a watery landscape of bridges and boats. Next, they strap into a plane, flying above rainbow-striped hills where Luis lives. Finally, they cross the sand atop a camel to Jada's desert town. Following a family reunion and group photo, Grandad discovers they've lost their goggles, canteen, whistle, compass, telescope, and sailor hat (all visually reproduced to aid detection) along the way and must retrace their steps to find the missing gear. Once again, Cronin (The Lost Christmas, 2018, etc.) orchestrates cunning visual challenges, directly inviting readers to search four distinct, amazingly detailed, surreal landscapes to locate Yuki, Jada, Awan, and Luis and then double back to find the diabolically concealed lost items. Forming mazes of pattern and line, psychedelic acrylic illustrations beg close inspection of wonderland details and nonsensical juxtapositions. It is a pity that this canine extended family's search rests upon stereotypically exotic cues, however.

A challenging search-and-find adventure. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews