Wave by Suzy Lee - review

Friday, July 18, 2008

Wave by Suzy Lee - review

Wave by Suzy Lee
Holy wackadoodle. Masterful, internationally-acclaimed author-illustrator Suzy Lee uses a stick of charcoal and one color of acrylic paint and NOTHING ELSE - no words - and chronicles a little girl's encounter with the ocean. In just a few sketched lines, she gives us eager, curious, hesitant, exuberant, intimidated... a new expression every page. It's like the best frames from a whole day of home video, silent except for the call of gulls and the sound of waves, condensed into a slideshow to watch over and over again.

In fact, replace the seagulls with pelicans, and the little girl with my 6-year-old, and you've got our vacation. I took that video myself.

Labels: age: adult children, age: PreK - Grade3, diverse cultures, picture books, superstar books, wordless

Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 in age: grownups like it too, wordless | Permalink

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isn't this beautiful?

Posted by: Stacy Dillon | Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 08:57 PM

Adored it. What skill!

Posted by: YNL | Friday, July 18, 2008 at 03:15 AM

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