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ISBN-10: 1592702910
ISBN-13: 9781592702916
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Publish Date: 10/13/2020
Dimensions: 11.00" L, 8.25" W, 0.55" H

Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky

Illustrator: Ryoji Arai
Translator: David Boyd

Hardcover

Price: $17.95

Overview

A Publishers Weekly Best Picture Book of 2020

A Kirkus Best Book of 2020

A 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.

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Reviews
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
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Details

ISBN-10: 1592702910
ISBN-13: 9781592702916
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Publish Date: 10/13/2020
Dimensions: 11.00" L, 8.25" W, 0.55" H
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