Sentence examples for witty picture from inspiring English sources

Age: 4+ There's an epic adventure at the heart of this witty picture book, as seven furry creatures burst out of the small, dark hole in which they were born and set out anxiously to find a new home.

They've turned into (vaguely) respectable adults who do not offend me with their internet behaviour, but lurking beneath their recently tagged holiday photos and refreshingly witty picture captions there are albums upon albums of evidence that they were, in fact, once 19 years old and an embarrassing person.

For the youngest children Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Stick Man is a touching and witty picture book about a loving Stick dad who get separated from his Stick children and has to do everything in his power to get back home to the "family tree".

Michele Landsberg, author of Reading for the Love of It: Best Books for Young Readers noted in an article for The Washington Post that Pat Hutchins is "best known" for her "witty picture books", including Don't Forget the Bacon!

It also offers precious glimpses of his genius as a maker of sublime and witty pictures.

Yasumura's witty pictures of isolated, ordinary objects (a stapler, a garden hose, a trash bin, rolls of toilet paper) in his family's Japanese home are mock iconic, tweaking tradition and modernity and finding both utterly spent.

(Dargis) ' 500) DAYS OF SUMMER' (PG-13, 1 36) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel meet cute, get close and go their separate ways, but in a scrambled time scheme that gives this sweet, witty little picture the mopey lilt of a pop song.

Warhola's witty, energetic pictures, including one of himself waking up in a room piled high with soup cartons, give a wonderful child's-eye view of a world that was clearly more entrancing than Disneyland.

Just ask James Whale, who in the early 1930s made a string of terrifically witty fright pictures — "Frankenstein," "The Old Dark House," "The Invisible Man" and "The Bride of Frankenstein" — but had less success with his nonhorrific studio films and ended up retiring from the business 10 years later.

Voluptuous color and luxurious interpenetrations of sensuous forms conspired to make messy, elegant, often witty abstract pictures.

(Picture book; ages 4 to 10) Using a palette almost as quiet as his wordless text, Pett's witty if subdued picture book tells the story of a little boy who receives a toy airplane as a gift.