The Land of Lines

The Land of Lines

by: Victor Hussenot (2014)

The Land of Lines is a wordless picture book.  This book shows the story of a young girl, drawn in red lines, and a young boy, drawn in blue lines.  The story takes them through meeting each other, becoming friends, and even starting to like each other romantically.  The whole book up to this point is drawn in red and blue lines.  Then there comes a monster, drawn in yellow.  The monster takes the girl when the boy is not looking.  The boy fights off the monster and reduces the little girl.  The boy and girl then see that the yellow monster was just a little boy pretending to be a monster.  The three of them become friends and travel though the book some more.  Then the whole page is drawn in yellow, it looks like where the yellow boy is from.  The yellow boy leaves and the other two go to a page drawn in all red.  This looks like the place where the red girl is from.  The blue boy is sad to leave her.  This is the end of the wordless picture book.  

I really enjoyed this picture book.  This novel stereotypes boys in blue and girls in red, but not in an obvious way.  Although the author does this, it helps the reader keep track of who draws each line in the book.  The boy lines represent the boy's thinking while the red represents the girl's thinking.  I would love to read this book with a student in my classroom.  There are endless possibilities to reading this because each reader makes their own story from the pictures given to them.  I would highly recommend this book to other teachers.  I would want this book in my classroom, regardless of grade level.  I think that any grade level could write something off of this picture book.