Sora and the Cloud, Hardcover

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Fore Word magazine Book of the Year - Bronze Medal Winner - 2011 Children's Picture Books: ""A delicate and enchanting bilingual story with exceptional watercolor scenes."" ""It is tempting to label 'Miyazaki-like' anything appealing to children and Japanese in origin. But in this instance the analogy fits. The nameless cloud is a benign yet mysterious and uncontrollable presence as it lifts Sora, Totoro style, into the sky. There he views a skyscraper mid-construction, an amusement park, a festival of kites and other boyish marvels. Hoshino s intricate and delicate drawings deliver this parade of sightseeing pleasures in a way that is at once dreamlike and visceral."" New York Times Book Review A growing boy enjoys the ultimate daydreamto soar like a cloud Once a crawling baby, now Sora can climb a tree. There a friendly cloud awaits Birds, kites, and fireworks whirl by as these friends share an adventure in the sky. This wonderful flight of fancy encourages children's journeys of self-discovery, familial awareness, and cultural exchange, with colorfully expressive illustrations and bilingual Japanese translation. ""Prolific Japanese-American illustrator Felicia Hoshino makes her authorial debut in this delightful picture book...The bilingual text (Hoshino s English is accompanied by Hisa s Japanese translation) displays a simple exuberance that perfectly matches the light, joyful subject matter...Hoshino s soft, Japanesque watercolors perfectly punctuate Sora s adventure and include plenty of references to Hoshino s native city of San Francisco (the Golden Gate Bridge and cable cars, to name a couple)...With its local appeal, cultural relevance, and textual and aesthetic grace, this is a welcome addition for Bay Area collections."" - Bayviews, December 2011, The Association of Children s Librarians of Northern California ""This warm picture book captures the physicality of imaginative play that gets wilder and wilder, and preschoolers will recognize the fun of crawling and