I’ve mentioned this phenomenon before. Sometimes you just pick up a book and the illustrations are so dated, the period of it’s publication just screams at you. I don’t mean dated in a derogatory way either, I love a lot of these books, but you’d never think say, Hide and Seek Fog was from the 1980’s or Knuffle Bunny was from the 1950’s. They look of their time.

And so to Drummer Hoff which screams late 60’s from two aisles away. The colors! The crazy stain-glass like divisions of objects. The crazy last “Make Love Not War” -esque image of the cannon covered with flowers and birds. The colors! Oh the colors!!!!!! It’s, uh, bright.

The chum liked it a lot but that’s pretty much because he’s 4 years old and it’s about a cannon. It’s very simple and unsubstantial. And so very very of the late 1960’s. Flashback!