Can the broad truths of aphorisms be visually explained? Dive into the pages of this interactive book to find out!
STARRED REVIEW! ★ "Twenty-one aphorisms are illustrated in this handsome, artfully designed picture book... Utilizing printmaking, drawing, a computer, and only two colors—Pantone red and blue—as well as flaps and gatefolds, Yoon offers readers highly stylized, often humorous interpretations of the sayings. Clever, challenging content paired with accomplished, unusual art." —School Library Journal
Up Down Inside Out is another innovative and surprising book from artist and bookmaker JooHee Yoon. This time, she takes up aphorisms and gives them wit and playfulness through visual explanation. Graphically gorgeous and mentally stimulating, this is a book for all ages, as well as for the ages.
Praise
A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of 2020
? “Twenty-one aphorisms are illustrated in this handsome, artfully designed picture book, from the familiar, such as “A watched pot never boils” or “You are what you eat,” to the more obscure. Utilizing printmaking, drawing, a computer, and only two colors—Pantone red and blue—as well as flaps and gatefolds, Yoon offers readers highly stylized, often humorous interpretations of the sayings. Clever, challenging content paired with accomplished, unusual art.” —School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW!
—School Library Journal
“Yoon (Beastly Verse) has taken 18 English proverbs and illustrated them quite literally, using shades of red and blue and her magnificent layered woodblock style, with flaps. The mesmerizing effect is funny and surreal in a way that will appeal to children and adults alike.”
—New York Times
One of 100 Scope Notes’s “Predictions! NYT Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2019!” “Yoon’s bold printmaking style is instantly recognizable. A previous winner, Yoon’s art is on full display in this book, filled with flaps and die cuts.”
—100 Scope Notes, Travis Jonker
“It is an exquisitely designed book, which also features flaps and die-cuts. There is also an eye-catching gatefold, pictured below. I find Yoon’s books so refreshingly bold and curious and offbeat. I remember, when Yoon’s Beastly Verse was released (2015), Daisy Fried wrote at the New York Times that children ‘appreciate the bizarre and off-kilter, and are too often denied it when grown-ups edit for positive messages and sweetness. Hooray for Yoon for countering that.’ Amen.”
—Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Julie Danielson
A Drawn & Quarterly 2019 Staff Pick! “Up Down Inside Out is a book of illustrated aphorisms by the fantastic JooHee Yoon. The book is full of secrets hiding behind doors and under coats and in bushes. With flaps and cut-outs on every page, it's like a puzzle of a book with some of the most compelling art I've seen.”
—Drawn & Quarterly (Montréal, Canada), Kennedy, Bookseller
“Yoon has created a series of prints that will both amuse and give pause… This tour de force of concept and design will engage the minds and hands of a wide swath of ages.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Up Down Inside Out by JooHee Yoon delivers comical illustrations to 21 aphorisms, brief sayings, that will make you laugh. What makes this even more fun is that Yoon adds flaps and holes to pages to make it that much more interesting.”
—Alice, Ever After Books (Buffalo, NY), Meg, Owner
