More Blueberries!

April 13, 2015
The duo behind Love You More (2014) returns with an enthusiastic celebration of blueberries, starring two children (and a few animals) who canât get enough of them. The inherent messiness of eating blueberries figures prominently: âBlueberry fingers,/ blueberry nose./ Blueberry lips,/ blueberry toes,â writes Musgrave as Meloâs warm acrylics show the boy and girl leaving blue hand- and footprints in their wake. An interlude in which cats, crows, frogs, and bears express their fervor for blueberries (âFrogs hop on blueberries,/ pop, hop, popâ) disrupts the repeating structure of the rhymes that precede and follow it, but itâs a small quibble in a joyful story. Up to age 3.