How Many Miles to Babylon?

A Bicycle Outing. Is This Strange Family Really Going to Babylon?

Human “parents” in old fashioned, formal attire and three bear “children” are riding bicycles very close together and very determinedly off to the left of the page, opposite the normal eye movement for reading. This oppositional direction adds to the determination of their efforts to get on with their travels. On the contrary, the softness of the primary colors and the dainty flowered corners of the muted framing of the illustration stop time and give viewers the sense of looking at a postcard or photo album.