The Snow Day by Kamako Sakai

[vegablack62.livejournal.com]

The Snow day by Kamako Sakai,
3/50  (Only the third of my fifty books.)

On a whim I picked up this child's picture book by the Japanese writer and artist Kamako Sakai and found a beautiful, gentle story that captures the experience of a certain kind of kindergarten age child.  If any one has been around a quiet watchful five year old they will recognize this child.  A heavy snow has fallen keeping the child from going to school and the child's father from flying home from a trip.  The delay of the father supplies a little tiny bit of plot and resolution when the snow stops enough for him to return.  Sakai captures the muffled quiet and isolation a heavy snow creates.  It looks like the child and the mother  are the only two people in the world. 

I loved that the child is portrayed as a bunny, a bunny how could  be either a girl or a boy and could be from any race or gender.  This could be any child.  I also appreciate that the family lives in an apartment building. So often normalcy has to be a single family suburban home.

The illustrations are lovely and the text matches.  

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

This sounds wonderful, thanks for reviewing it!

(Don't get too discouraged about the tally, you'll get there eventually.)

[vegablack62.livejournal.com]

Thanks that is good to hear.