A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka

This book is a picture book, but it has no words. I thought that it was very interesting how the author was able to portray so many feelings of the dog through fairly simple drawings and no words. One particular place that I thought was very artistically clever was right after Daisy’s ball got popped and she was sleeping on the couch. The illustrator drew four pictures on the same page and in each picture the only difference really was that Daisy was sinking lower and lower into the couch. This seamed to portay that the longer Daisy didn’t have her ball, the sadder and sadder she got. Another thing that was artistically very interesting was how the subtle background changed based on what Daisy was feeling. When she had her ball and was happy, the colors were purple and yellow. However, once her ball got popped, the color scheme changed to brown and other darker colors. I believe the moral of this story is that if you do something even on accident to hurt someone, it is always nice to do what you can to apologize and fix it if you can.