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Noodles on a Bicycle

A tall portrait layout might have been the natural choice for Noodles on a Bicycle, with its depictions of bicycling demae (deliverymen) who balance gravity-defying towers of trays and bowls of soba noodles as they move through the streets of Tokyo. Instead, Zhang opted for a square trim, which infuses her illustrations...
      

Second-round nominations results!

Sixteen of you responded to our call for nominations this round, and you nominated 22 eligible (more on that in a minute) titles. Thank you!  Our three leaders are:   Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Mclear, illustrated by Gracey Zhang (6 nominations)  Ahoy! by Sophie Blackall (5 nominations)  Love Is...
      

Review of Noodles on a Bicycle

Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Gracey Zhang Preschool, Primary    Random House Studio/Random    40 pp. 8/24    9780593706084    $18.99 Library ed.  9780593706091    $21.99 e-book ed.  9780593706107    $10.99 The creators of The Big Bath House (rev. 11/21) take readers back to Japan, this time for a wild bicycle ride...
      

Review of The Big Bath House

The Big Bath House by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Gracey Zhang Primary    Random    40 pp.    g 11/21    978-0-593-18195-9    $17.99 Library ed.  978-0-593-18196-6    $20.99 e-book ed.  978-0-593-18197-3    $10.99 A young girl visiting her grandmother in Japan narrates this not-so-traditional bath-time book about a very traditional and ancient Japanese custom. The narrator...
      

It Began with a Page: Author Kyo Maclear's 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech

     A few years ago, Julie Morstad and I met with the family of Gyo Fujikawa in Los Angeles. I had an uncanny sense, as we sat with them over lunch, that Gyo was there among us, threading her way into our conversation. Why did we want to tell her...
      

It Began with a Page: Illustrator Julie Morstad's 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech

Gyo Fujikawa has long meant much to me as an artist and bookmaker, but this project allowed me to learn so much more about not only the vital role she played in bringing diversity to children’s books but also many details of her little-known life story, including her personal journey...
      

BGHB 2020: It Began with a Page

Nonfiction week continues in our first-ever, month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration.   Today, judge Leo Landry introduces the 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Book It Began with a Page:   The 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Nonfiction is presented to author Kyo Maclear and illustrator Julie Morstad...
      

Review of It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way

It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Julie Morstad Primary    Harper/HarperCollins    48 pp. 10/19    978-0-06-244762-3    $17.99 "In early 1960s America, a country with laws that separated people by skin color," Japanese American artist Gyo Fujikawa (1908–1998) helped break the color barrier...
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