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Reyes, Paul
The Virginia quarterly review, 10/2019, Volume: 95, Issue: 3Journal Article
Reyes discusses the Triangle, Square and Circle trilogy project by writer Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen. Triangle, Square, and Circle were originally conceived as characters for a video game Klassen was designing while working in animation, where the storyline included whole civilizations of simple shapes. In 2015, he and Barnett returned to the shapes concept to see if it might work as a book. In many ways, the picture book is already a distilled form-lean but packed. To strip it down even further led them to reconsider certain fundamentals of storytelling, character among them.
