Over the course of a day, the attentive eye will notice all sorts of luminous details: little shafts of sun, the glint of reflections on water, radiant stars in an inky sky. But how often does the eye attend? It's a question that arises in a silent way with "Every Color of Light", an exquisite picture book for children ages 4-7 written by Hiroshi Osada and translated from the Japanese by David Boyd: "Look, it's raining. / Pitter-patter, pitter patter. / The rain gets louder. / Wetter and wetter, the blues darken. / So do the greens." Ryoji Arai's artwork has a spacious, distempered, breathless feel: Rain slashes across dark vegetation; afternoon light gilds foliage. Poised and lovely, the language and images here combine to awaken the reader's awareness of fugitive moments of natural beauty. -The Wall Street Journal