Barry show the readers the idea of change when we grow up as a loss of creativity and inspiration. The page I chose talks about how different children’s priorities and grown up’s priorities are. At it says in the first box “at the center of everything we call “the arts”” while children just play. She defines that “playing” as a happy and creative trip to a world either made of memories or imagination.

Linda Barry – What It Is – Page 14

Barry used less colors than in the other pages and I think she does that to contrast the children’s imagination and a “happy play” to the adult’s mind-set and the “serious play.”

I think Barry made a collage with a lot of pictures, some might be drawn, other might be printed images, and also with a lot of hand-written text. This design fits perfectly with the idea she is trying to express in the book. Just by reading the book and going over some images, the imagination come to our minds and she make us think about a variety of questions that doesn’t really have correct answers, or any answers at all.
It’s hard to focus on one detail of the page because there is so many of them, but all of the contribute to the meaning of the book. I think the big monster at the top of the page is a good example of what the book really tries to do: ask you question with no specific answer and show you things that are only real in our imagination.