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This Is the House That Jack Built
The Haphazard House - No Wonder It's For Sale!
Taback's version of this rhyme shows a house that will appeal to children
for its craziness. There is nothing square, symmetric, or balanced about
this house. It is made of bricks, stones, logs, siding (horizontal and
diagonal) and ladders! It has all types of windows placed haphazardly
everywhere. The various roofs are made of different materials; there is
a wrought iron railing on the balcony, a wooden railing on the porch,
and the front door is painted purple! This flat, two-dimensional illustration
shows no people, suggesting that the oversized house is the focal point
and seems to be a story character in its own right. Clearly there must
be a story of how this house came to exist. Various media and bright hues
are used to create this impression. The vivid yellow sun is smiling down
on the house from the left upper corner of the illustration. The grass
was created using intensely green crayon strokes dotted with bright red,
yellow, pink and purple flower heads from collage, gouache and watercolor.
This is truly a house to make one smile.
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