The result is cinematic, for sure, as this dance of a blossoming friendship carries readers of all ages along with its delicate rhythm and pacing.
Author/illustrator and former Dreamworks animator Molly Idle ensures the spotlight remains on the dancing pair through the use of a minimal background and restrained palette of pastels reminiscent of fellow wordless picturebook illustrator Suzy Lee. Moving the story cleverly forward are large flaps that can be turned over in a number of ways to create multiple plotlines. It’s no easy feat to follow, and the flamingo isn’t the most willing of teachers as it resists, ridicules, and rejects little Flora until her sheer sincerity begins to win it over. Donning a bathing suit, swimming flippers, and a yellow bathing cap, Flora sidles up to the flamingo whose graceful ballet she tries to emulate. A nimble flamingo and an earnest but clumsy little girl make an unlikely dancing duo in the interactive and wordless picturebook, Flora and the Flamingo.
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