7/3: reading retreat?

A friend of mine went on a reading retreat in January, which sounded like such a wonderful thing to do for oneself.  It turns out that my summer sinus infection is providing me with my own reading retreat of sorts.  Today's thoroughly engaging book was Picture This:  How Pictures Work by Molly Bang.  I'm not sure I buy all of her underlying reasons for why certain colors/shapes/arrangements have the effects they do, but she certainly is good at demonstrating the effects--and she does it all with elegantly simple paper cut-outs.  I might actually spend some time tonight playing with cut paper myself....