stephen parlato

“The World has not always loved dragons, / but Dragons have always loved the world.” So begins this fascinating tour of stunning dragons fashioned with intricate collage. Each double-page spread showcases a dragon created by a painstaking assemblage of detailed pictorial parts of the objects it admires. Frequent rhyme and occasionally playful wording help clue […]

Dragons Love Stephen Parlato. Simply Read (PGW, dist.), $16.95 (44p) ISBN 978-1-897476-18-5
Dramatic and surreal, Parlato’s (The World That Loved Books) dragon collages, made up of repeated and sometimes distorted images, take center stage in this work. “Dragons love flowers, their colors and perfumes,” he writes, as the corresponding spread shows a dragon composed of flaming […]