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There Was a Crooked Man
A Long, Long Walk – Welcome Home
Here the viewer’s eye is drawn back over the crooked road into the
distant landscape. The tall misshapen house stretches up the right side of
the page adding to the vertical sweep of this image. The fence (stile) encloses
the house, the man, the cat, and the mouse. The dark browns of the roof of
the house, the man’s coat, and the cat connect the three and create a
triangle containing them in the diagonal portion from the lower left to the
upper right of the image. Bayley’s illustration portrays all seven of
the elements of the rhyme in crisp, clear earth tones, but it is the mile and
the house that dominate.
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