2019
There's a bookstore near-ish where I live that specials in children's books and YA, and their restrooms are wallpapered with decoupage made of illustrated pages. One page really caught my eye, and thanks to some internet sleuthing, I managed to track it down.
Duckworth, the Difficult Child is about a little boy who (from his perspective) gets swallowed whole by a giant snake, or (from his parents' perspective) insists on wearing a Halloween snake costume around the house, pretending he's been swallowed. The artwork in the book is firmly on Duckworth's side.
I really Julia Sarda's art in this. She uses a lot of bold colors and patterns against a white background, and while she uses lines for internal details within each figure, she doesn't draw visible outlines around any of them. It's quite distinctive, and I love it. The giant orange snake dominates every page it's on, and manages to look neither threatening nor goofy.
I was probably a 'difficult child' the way Duckworth's parents mean it, so it was fun to read about a kid with a big imagination, who is oblivious to social cues, who still muddles through okay by the end.
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