![]() ![]() ![]() The text is similarly simple, but a change in the size and color of the font signifies important moments. The spare, clever illustrations-all round, black-outlined punctuation marks with faces-are set on thick lined-paper, the kind kindergarteners use, and the overall design effect is lovely. After a barrage of questions from ? (“Do you like frogs? Can you hula-hoop?”), ! finds his voice and tells him to “STOP!” From there, !’s confidence begins to grow and, soon, there’s no stopping his unbridled joy. ![]() ! tries clever ways to fit in (flipping himself upside down, thereby squashing his tail) and even thinks about running away, until he meets a formidable force: the question mark. At first, !, a round circle with a face, doesn’t like standing out in a crowd in a line-up of seven smiling faces, which look like period marks, he’s the only one with a line above his head. "From the dynamic team that brought you Duck! Rabbit! (2009) comes this introduction to the most exuberant punctuation mark of all: the exclamation point. ![]()
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