The Snow Day by Kamako Sakai
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50books_pocThe 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-06-18 12:49 am (UTC)(Don't get too discouraged about the tally, you'll get there eventually.)
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