Wizard of Op by Ed Emberley

In 1975, more than a decade into a career that would establish him as one of the most innovative children's book authors of his time, artist and illustrator Ed Emberley followed the gothic woodcuts of his previous book, Suppose You Met a Witch, with a complete left turn: the story of a prince turned into a frog, and the bumbling wizard whose spells take the form of dizzying optical illusions. Combining the bold graphic experimentation of the 1970s Op-Art movement with the charmingly irreverent storytelling for which Emberley is renowned, Wizard of Op is a visual odyssey like no other. Anthology is proud to reintroduce this little-known masterpiece from a wizard of children's literature.

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About the Author
Ed Emberley is the illustrator and author of over eighty books, including the bestselling Go Away, Big Green Monster! and his enormously popular "Drawing Book" series. He has received many awards and accolades, including a Caldecott Honor in 1967 for One Wide River to Cross and a Caldecott Medal in 1968 for Drummer Hoff. Wizard of Op is his second book reissued with Anthology Editions.

Reviews

"If nothing else, Emberley's exercises in black and white magic are an ingenious answer to the industry-wide cutback in color reproduction. Within a comic strip story of a prince turned into a frog and an incompetent wizard who tries out a bedazzling variety of spells before lighting on the one that can turn him back (meanwhile the prince becomes, briefly, a rabbit, a kangaroo, a grasshopper and a whale), Emberley subjects readers to seven double page eye-whammers to which the Wiz gives such fitting names as rectangle tingle, zig zag zowie and op tickle two. It's much fun, probably just about where the whole op art game finds its level. Wizard."

- Kirkus Reviews, 1975

Book Information
ISBN 9781944860684
Author Ed Emberley
Format Hardback
Page Count 32
Imprint Anthology Editions
Publisher Anthology Editions