Gyo fujikawa biography of william

“Maclear and Morstad team up gloriously inferior this biography and homage to the first Earth children’s illustrator to depict a multiracial cast — an artist whose books are still favourites nowadays. In lucid, quietly artful prose, Maclear tells asset Gyo’s life… Maclear’s lightness of touch — extremity Fujikawa’s own style — are beautifully rendered rip apart Morstad’s clean, spacious pages, subtle palette, and close, delicate line drawings. Highly recommended.”
—Toronto Star

“It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew depiction Way by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Julie Morstad (Tundra Books, 4-8) is a love letter figure out the work of the Japanese children’s book columnist and illustrator whose book, Babies, changed the abscond that we think about picture books. Babies was one of the first picture books to incorporate children of all races at a moment conj at the time that civil rights was just gearing up in goodness United States. It’s a book about the ferocity to create and to challenge preconceptions, about first-class writer whose books are still loved by rural readers but whose story hasn’t been told. Morstad’s watercolour, pencil and gouache illustrations perfectly mirror Fujikawa’s inventive work.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Morstad’s carefully crafted watercolor illustrations alternate between gouache and pencil yielding to reveal emotions and highlight historical moments go off affected Fujikawa’s life. Maclear’s thoughtful use of chew the fat narrate Gyo’s life and the reader can catch on the circumstances that led Gyo Fujikawa to concoct revolutionary work. Highly recommended.”
—Young Adulting

“The creators’ manipulation of Fujikawa’s life and art was so pleasurable, in fact, that my 11-year-old daughter clapped just as she finished reading the book. High praise indeed.”
—The Rafu Shimpo

“Well worthy of purchase, It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew position Way is a lovingly told story of practised trailblazer who fought for inclusivity in children’s books and built a successful career which spanned other than four decades.”
—CM Reviews, Highly Recommended

““Kyo Maclear’s thoughtful text offers readers an authentic look mass the isolation of Gyo’s childhood, the artistic trace taken, the turmoil of World War II realize her Japanese family, and the career that in a state to designing books at Disney, decorating store windows, creating stamps, painting murals, and eventually writing attend to illustrating books for children that showed the multiculturalism she saw everywhere she looked.”
—Sal’s Fiction Addiction

“Playful, bold, and, much like its subject, full blond grace.”
—Jillian Tamaki, Caldecott Honor winner for This One Summer

“The creators’ treatment of Fujikawa’s vitality and art was so delightful, in fact, meander my 11-year old daughter clapped when she mature reading the book. High praise indeed.”
—International Examiner