Alko's charming mixed media illustrations provide lots of bells and holly.
The prose is slightly flat at times, but Rim's exuberantly colorful illustrations provide just the combination of pretty, quirky and cute that first-grade girls like.
Her delicate illustrations provide a useful way to identify different trees, including oaks, hollies and beech trees which may be found in cities as well as in the country.
If such illustrations provide a better understanding of terms like "binarize" or "double pendulum," they've done their work — and maybe we'll soon see more of them in electronic textbooks, papers and company reports.
"The book is chockablock with historical information, rare songs and lyrics," Eric P. Nash wrote here in 1999, and "the illustrations provide a visual feast of sheet music covers and tinted postcards that evoke the lost world of Schrafft's, Childs and Horn & Hardart".
We hope that the descriptions and illustrations provide a starting point for microscopists to enter the related literature.
