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A rhythmic, explosive picture book where pattern, sound, and color march together. Drummer Hoff retells an old folk rhyme about soldiers who build a grand cannon — the Sultan — and the drummer who fires it. Ed Emberley’s woodcut illustrations pulse with energy: bright blocks of red, blue, and yellow […]
Ed Emberley (born 1931) is an American artist and illustrator. Emberley was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston, then studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1955, he married Barbara, a librarian and writer, with whom he collaborated on several […]
Woodcut illustrations and brief text from an American folk song relate the story of the animals on Noah’s ark.