Praise for Thank You, Everything

One of 100 Scope Notes’s Most Astonishingly Unconventional Books of 2024! “The text begins with simple thank you statements, but it soon becomes apparent that these images are building on each other and an adventure is taking shape. Visually stunning and open to interpretation, as a good unconventional book should be.”
100 Scope Notes (A School Library Journal blog)

One of Betsy Bird's Caldenotts of 2024! "Supremely lovely, this is the kind of book a kid could pore over for long periods of time, immersed in this beautiful world. How else could I possibly conclude this write-up, except to say, thank you, Icinori!"
A Fuse #8 Production (A School Library Journal blog)

Featured in the New York Times Book Review! "This coffee-table-worthy picture book is a catalog of wonders from which children can create their own narratives."
New York Times

A Marginalian Favorite of 2024! "An illustrated love letter to the world… It is good, every once in a while, to let ourselves be stupefied by gratitude, to cast upon ourselves a spell against indifference by moving through the world with an inner bow at every littlest thing that prevailed over the odds of otherwise in order to exist… Icinori offers a vibrant invitation to this countercultural way of seeing in Thank You, Everything—a meditative yet exuberant journey through the world within and the world without… The destination, rather than a place, is a state of being—the recompense of paying everything in our path the gratitude and reverence it is due for merely existing. For we forget, too, that dignity—this deepest reverence for being—is not something we can ever have for ourselves unless we accord it to everything and everyone else."
The Marginalian

About the Author

Icinori is an experimental design and illustration duo, made up of couple Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller. Designers, visual artists, and editors, they concoct a wide range of projects together, spanning illustration, graphic design, exhibitions, publishing, and teaching. They have published several artists’ books and children’s books, including Et Puis, which was selected as an honor book in the fiction category of the 2019 Bologna Ragazzi Awards, and have contributed art to the New York Times, Wired, and Forbes Magazine. Growing up in a French–Chinese American family, Emilie Robert Wong attended school in the French national education system before studying comparative literature and neuroscience at Harvard College. She is an associate editor at Enchanted Lion, as well as the co-translator, with Karin Snelson, of You Can’t Kill Snow White (shortlisted for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative’s Translated YA Book Prize) and At the Drop of a Cat (a Kirkus Best Book of 2023 and a NYPL Best Children’s Book of 2023).

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