Wabi sabi ed young5/9/2023 ![]() We think it’s a masterpiece, and the advance reviewers seem to agree. Together Ed, writer Mark Reibstein, and our art director Stewart Cauley embarked on a journey to tell the story of a boy recalling his mom in the simplest, most unadorned way possible-spare words, shaped into a seventeen-syllable form of haiku that Mark calls American Sentences (a term coined by Allen Ginsberg) brown ink drawings by Ed of the utmost simplicity, in which you discern cats and the moon, people, but never without searching and a textured, plainspoken design. ![]() Many things he was working on interested us, but there was one book in particular, something other publishers had turned their backs on as “too sad.” But we didn’t find it sad, it was too emotionally rich to be sad, too true. A couple of years ago we met Ed Young, the multi-Caldecott-winning legendary children’s book author and illustrator, and began traveling up to Hastings-on-Hudson to visit with him in his labyrinthine studio and home. ![]()
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