![]() ![]() At the same time, Kitamura has a keen, almost cinematic sense of the visually comic. Using subtle gradations of his rich palette, his colors seem to shimmer and bloom on the page-an especially pleasing effect for a book largely set underwater. Although the story lacks cohesion and the writing is stilted in places, Kitamura's humor comes through in the cartoon illustrations, which are at once luminous and daffy. An inadvertent dance between cat and fish ensues before the fish is accidentally vaulted back to his home, which the art now reveals as a fishbowl. He next tries land, but leaps into the clutches of a hungry cat. The narrator, a goldfish, searches every inch of his apparently vast watery home for a playmate named Heidi, consulting fellow fish, frogs and octopus. ![]() Kitamura (Sheep in Wolves' Clothing) serves up an attenuated tale only partially redeemed by his dynamic illustrations. ![]()
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