Slow Loris:
Deacon, Alexis. 2003, Random House. 'Slow Loris'
Slow Loris is a great example of a simple premise that can be utterly captivating. It follows Slow Loris who is, very, very slow. His secret however is that he's so very slow because late an night, when everyone at the zoo is asleep he moves very fast until he's simply too tired to do so any more.
One of my favorite bits about this book is the way Deacon incoperates the text into the illustrations. Hand rendered and worked into the actual flow of the images it realy helps to bring the two elements together to support each other. Which is the sort of thing I'm hoping to do in my own book.
