figure something out

Ok, I have to start by saying that the only reason I even really liked this book was because of the artwork. The concept is pretty neat too but I think the book itself is rather complex for a wordless book. While I found it cool, I think it could potentially cause some frustration. Here we have a little pig whose parents make him turn the light off at 8 o'clock he's afraid to go to sleep without the light on. So his parents tell him that if he can "figure something out" to go right ahead. And of course he does. He creates something of a Rube Goldberg machine that, after he pulls the cord, will keep his lights on long enough for him to fall sleep before the last mechanism flips the switch. The illustrations are a series of hatches, crosshatches, and regular lines and shapes, filled with what appears to be many of the same colors over and over again. What I found confusing about the book was how Arthur Geisert would show the same thing from different perspectives which would throw of the flow of the machine. But it's still really fascinating to watch...I mean read.