Every Color of Light

A Book about the Sky

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ISBN: 9781592702916 Category:

Hiroshi Osada

Description

Publishers Weekly Best Picture Book of 2020
Kirkus Best Book of 2020
Shelf Awareness Best Children’s Book of 2020
Best Illustrator Award, 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards

Poetic and sparse, a bedtime story told by the elements.

Gentle and lyrical, Every Color of Light is a bedtime story told by the elements.
Every Color of Light opens on a lush, green forest in the rain. Illustrated by the masterful Ryoji Arai, the calm is shattered when the wind picks up and lightning cuts the sky. Yet out of this turbulence, the day blooms bright, the flowers open, and raindrops roll and drip down to the forest floor. The sun sets. The moon rises, and in a pool of water we see its reflection. We go to sleep with the forest, sinking into the pool, into the calm reflection of the moon. Harmonizing our human experience to the natural world, Arai invites the reader to hold imaginative space for our oneness with the natural world.

Additional information

Weight 422 g
Dimensions 21.7 x 28.6 cm
Publisher name ABRAMS
Publication date 15 October 2020
Number of pages 38
Format Hardback
Contributors Illustrated by Ryoji Arai
Dimensions 21.7 x 28.6 cm
Weight 422 g

RyƓji Arai was born in Yamagata, Japan, in 1956. He has an illustrative style all of his own: bold, mischievous and unpredictable. Arai studied art at Nippon University. His art is at once genuine and truly poetic, encouraging children to paint and to tell their own stories. He took the Japanese picture-book world by storm in the 1990s. Since then, he has one multiple awards, including the international Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2005.
David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His translations have appeared in Monkey Business International, Granta, and Words Without Borders, among other publications.