Since 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards has been celebrating excellence in chidren’s and young adult literature. Last week, they announced the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners and we would like to congratulate Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad. Their beautiful book, It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way has been named an non-fiction honor book.
It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
By Kyo Maclear
Illustrated by Julie Morstad
48 Pages | Ages 5-9 | Hardcover
ISBN 9781101918593 | Tundra Books
“Author Maclear lucidly outlines a remarkable life of art and creativity, of struggle and perseverance…The telling makes smooth transitions between stages in Fujikawa’s life, culminating in the publication of Babies in 1963…Morstad’s illustrations – in liquid watercolor, gouache, and pencil crayons – effectively vary in style and coloring to match events…During scene of Babies‘s creation, the art capably mimics Fujikawa’s own, with a diverse cast of frolicsome tots dotting an open layout.” — The Horn Book
