Nest

The New York Times Book Review
- Sarah Harrison Smith
Each scene illustrates a single word…making it good practice for young readers. The rich, flat colors and stylized pictures…are certain to please aesthetically-minded children and their adults.




Publishers Weekly11/18/2013
Newcomer Hurley lets her bright, clean illustrations do her storytelling, limiting the text on each page to a single, evocative word. The first spread—"nest"—accompanies two robins guarding a precious blue egg. Like silk-screened images, Hurley's digitally created artwork represents the birds and the trees they live in with flat, sharply delineated areas of color on matte pages; airy white space in the compositions duplicates the freedom in which the birds live and soar.