Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky (Hardcover)

Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky By Hiroshi Osada, Ryoji Arai (Illustrator), David Boyd (Translated by) Cover Image

Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky (Hardcover)

By Hiroshi Osada, Ryoji Arai (Illustrator), David Boyd (Translated by)

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Publishers Weekly Best Picture Book of 2020

Kirkus Best Book of 2020

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.

Ryôji Arai was born in Yamagata, Japan, in 1956. He has an illustrative style all of his own: bold, mischievous and unpredictable. Arai studied art at Nippon University. His art is at once genuine and truly poetic, encouraging children to paint and to tell their own stories. He took the Japanese picture-book world by storm in the 1990s. Since then, he has one multiple awards, including the international Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2005.
David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His translations have appeared in Monkey Business International, Granta, and Words Without Borders, among other publications.
Product Details ISBN: 9781592702916
ISBN-10: 1592702910
Publisher: Enchanted Lion
Publication Date: October 13th, 2020
Pages: 38
Language: English