My Heart

I must say that yellow is not my favorite color (or even close). But seeing what magic Olympia-based artist Corinna Luyken can work with it makes me think again. As she did in her wonderful debut, The Book of Mistakes, she adds washes of yolky yellow to her already-evocative pen-and-ink drawings and somehow fills her pages with insight, curiosity, melancholy, and hope. "My heart is a window. My heart is a slide," she writes, and her lovely illustrations are the best possible expression of such open-ended declarations. (Ages 0 to 5)