![]() But the personhood it depicts leaps out of the page at you. And Caroline’s genius is that she achieves this powerful sense without photo-realism. You look at Grace and Mama and Nana, and you are POSITIVE that they are real people who agreed to pose for the illustrations. It’s not photo-realism, but it’s clear on every page that she must have taken the people in the book from life – she had models. Caroline Binch has created an extraordinary work of art here, precisely because the pictures aren’t “extraordinary” in the usual sense. Word person that I am, I’m still going to talk about the pictures first for Amazing Grace. Remarkable watercolor illustrations give full expression to Grace’s high-flying imagination.” So when she gets a chance to play a part in Peter Pan, she knows exactly who she wants to be. “Grace loves stories, whether they’re from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. ![]()
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