![]() ![]() Lucas tempers his clean black lines with the sweetness of his palette his whimsical interiors reveal more curiosities with every viewing, in both dreamy spreads and crisp sequential panels. Soon the whole household spins off on a dizzying adventure, to a world that offers succulent meals in jewel-like hues. A genie in a blue bottle washes up onto the gray-brown landscape and gives the girl a magic spoon, whose power, like the broom in The Sorcerer's Apprentice Sawdust for supper." Nutmeg's Uncle Nicodemus and Cousin Nesbit sit stolidly in their post-industrial surroundings, but readers sense that Nutmeg wants more. "There was alwaysĬardboard for breakfast. And well she might, for she lives in a dismal dwelling jammed with bits of broken machinery. , redheaded, pig-tailed Nutmeg takes her fate into her own hands. Unlike the shy hero of Lucas's debut, Halibut Jackson ![]()
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