european picture book - la coda canterina

Here's another book from the collection of picture books I picked up in Europe.  I got this one from Italy last fall, and it's about a little boy with a tail.

I love the images in this book so much.  They're simple and beautiful.  I really love the contrast between the black and white textured areas of the drawings and the flat, graphic hits of red.  It really inspires me to try adding flat graphic areas in my own work.  Some of the drawings are a bit unusual and I enjoy that too :)