Remember opening the pages of the Sunday Times to see what Bill Cunningham saw? If that wasn’t you, first check out this beautiful documentary and then pick up a copy of Polka Dot Parade by Deobrah Blumenthal to share with the kids in your life. Our family read this one together recently and I was glad to share a singular story of the way that one way a person establishes a life around their art: “I don’t work,” Bill said. “I only know how to have fun every day.” New York City is on center stage; the artist Masha D’Yans created illuminating watercolor illustrations of people, colors, light, clothes, and beauty at every street corner. This book is as much about the artist and street fashion as it is about a way of looking at the “runway called life.”
Polka Dot Parade by Deborah Blumenthal and illustrated by Masha D’Yans, published by Simon & Schuster (August, 2018).
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