It's a totally ingenious idea to the book itself become an object to play with - all without any electronics - and Hervé seems to have infinite ideas of ways to do this. (Just close the book quickly!)' Readers then turn the page and- voila! - there are two gray dots, one on the left page and one on the right, as the text reads: '. The text reads: 'So if you smoosh these two pages together. gently.' Readers then turn page to see the same three blobs of paint (red, yellow, blue) on the left-hand side of the spread, but a big green blob on the right-hand side of the page, the result of mixing the blue with the yellow.Īnother example: further into the book, there's a two-page spread with a big white blob on the left-hand page and a big black blob on the right page.

The text reads: 'With one finger take a little bit of the blue. On one two-page spread, for example, we see three big blobs of paint: one red, one yellow and one blue on the left-hand side of the page, and a bigger blob of the yellow paint by itself on the right-hand side of the page. Using the same playful tone as in Press Here, Hervé's new book invites young readers to 'paint' with the book. tour, he spent a recent morning at the Rollingwood campus of the Lycée Rochambeau, a French school in Washington, D.C., giving a gym-full of children ages 3-8 an energetic lesson in creatively combining colors, all based on Mix It Up!

Now Hervé has just released a new children's book, Mix It Up!, published by Chronicle Books, and, as part of a U.S. The result? Another successful hands-on art lesson by Hervé Tullet, the French children's author/illustrator who broke into the American children's book market a couple of years ago with his best-selling picture book, Press Here.

Mix it up hervé tullet