Black and White by David Macaulay is the 1991 Caldecott Award winner. The book itself consists of four separate stories that all tie together by the last page of the book. After the second page, I was quite confused with the book. I wasn't sure if was supposed to read each mini story in turn, or read them all as I went.
The first story had to do with a boy riding a train, that had to make an emergency stop. The second story was about a boy who's parents were confusing and dressing him up with pages from the newspaper. The third story was simply guests waiting at a train station for their ride. Lastly, the fourth story was about a a man that was sneaking around with cows.
One aspect of the book that was interesting was that each of the four stories had a different illustration style. This book would make for a very poor read aloud, and possibly too confusing of a book for a young reader to follow and understand.
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