Kyo Maclear es una autora que navega magistralmente por los reinos de la literatura infantil, las novelas y los ensayos. Su escritura se caracteriza por una profunda introspección y una celebración de los aspectos pequeños pero significativos de la vida, a menudo centrándose en el arte y el proceso creativo. A través de narrativas cautivadoras y ensayos perspicaces, Maclear explora temas de conexión, percepción y el descubrimiento de la belleza en lo cotidiano. Sus obras resuenan con una sensibilidad distintiva y una perspectiva única sobre el mundo que nos rodea.
The vibrant culture of Tokyo's bicycle food deliverers captivates children as they witness these skilled individuals expertly stacking noodle bowls and navigating the bustling city with agility. This engaging depiction highlights the artistry and efficiency of food delivery, showcasing how these acrobatic riders bring delicious meals to students, office workers, and families, making them an integral part of urban life.
Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the result of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, desperately seeking answers from her ailing mother whose memories and English are failing. Maclear no longer speaks Japanese, her mother's first language, so she turns to her mother's second fluent tongue: the wild and green language of soil, seed, leaf and mulch. Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? What gets planted and what gets buried? Unearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes far beyond heredity, full of unflinching insights into grief, loyalty and the relationship between mothers and daughters.
Zeit ist eine Blume. Zeit ist ein Kiesel, der einst ein Berg war. Zeit ist der einen Nacht und der anderen Tag. Was noch ist Zeit? Eine Linie, ein Kreis? Julie Morstads wunderbar poetische Gedankenreise über Zeit nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise über Vergänglichkeit, Veränderung und die großen Fragen des Lebens. So spielerisch, verträumt und frech, dass Leser*innen in jedem Alter dieses Abenteuer durch die Zeit genießen. Ein kostbarer Titel im 6-Farbdruck: Ein Geschenk für alle, die gerne auf Gedankenreisen gehen und ein Buch wie ein Schmuckstück lieben.
"Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes beyond heredity. Infused with moments of suspense, it is also a thoughtful reflection on race, lineage, and our cultural fixation on recreational genetics. Readers of Michelle Zauner's bestseller Crying in H Mart will recognize Maclear's unflinching insights on grief and loyalty, and keen perceptions into the relationship between mothers and daughters. What gets planted, and what gets buried? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? As it seeks to answer these questions, Unearthing bursts with the very love it seeks to understand"--
A city can be many things: quiet and dreamy or buzzing with excitement, and this picture book explores them all--and celebrates the people who live in them.
The uplifting journey of a bashful cloud ("kumo" in Japanese) who discovers the rewards of feeling seen.Kumo is a cloud whose only wish is to float unseen. When she’s assigned cloud duty for the day, she feels overwhelmed by self-doubt and her fear of being noticed. But after learning that closing your eyes isn’t a good solution to your troubles, Kumo pulls her fluff together and does her duties — drifting, releasing rain and providing shelter — meeting some new friends along the way and inspiring the imagination (and capturing the heart) of a small daydreamer like her.Kyo Maclear’s sweetly humorous and lyrical parable about shyness, vividly brought to life by Nathalie Dion’s ethereal illustrations, is an affirmation of the pleasures of community and the confidence that can arise from friendship and visibility.
This beautiful new book by award-winning illustrator Julie Morstad captures a child's imaginative delight in the ordinariness of the world, from getting dressed, to having breakfast, to choosing ways to get to school. This is a modern version of classic books like Oh, What a Busy Day by Gyo Fujikawa and The Best Storybook Ever by Richard Scarry.
Eine Geschichte von Flucht und Hoffnung. Poetisches Kinderbuch über Heimatgefühl & Familie und über Menschlichkeit & Empathie. Bilderbuch ab 3 Jahren. Auch für Kita & Grundschule
A glorious celebration of all the reasons to love the rain!
A joyful celebration of Japanese cultural traditions and body positivity as a young girl visits a bath house with her grandmother and aunties You'll walk down the street / Your aunties sounding like clip-clopping horses / geta-geta-geta / in their wooden sandals / Until you arrive... / At the bath house / The big bath house. In this celebration of Japanese culture and family and naked bodies of all shapes and sizes, join a little girl--along with her aunties and grandmother--at a traditional bath house. Once there, the rituals leading up to the baths begin: hair washing, back scrubbing, and, finally, the wood barrel drumroll. Until, at last, it's time, and they ease their bodies--their creased bodies, newly sprouting bodies, saggy, jiggly bodies--into the bath. Ahhhhhh!With a lyrical text and gorgeous illustrations, this picture book is based on Kyo Maclear's loving memories of childhood visits to Japan, and is an ode to the ties that bind generations of women together.