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They Say Blue
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Our Little Kitchen
A picture book about a lively evening in a community kitchen from Governor General’s Award–winning author and illustrator Jillian Tamaki.
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Jillian has a swooping, gorgeous pen line-expressive, vibrant and precise all at once...evocative and wondrous...It complements Mariko's fine ear for dialogue and the incidentals and events of adolescent life. Skim is an unusually strong graphic novel-rich in visuals and observations, and rewarding of repeated readings.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_13":"[Skim uses] high school as a fertile setting for pungent commentary on racial, cultural, and sexual issues...The narrative, mainly in diary form, feels accurate and realistic, drenched in a sense of confusion and nihilism, and the art, influenced by Craig Thompson's Blankets (2003), reflects the spare, gloomy emotional landscape in which Skim exists. This story will appeal to many female comics fans...","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_14":"[Skim] is bringing kudos to Canadian children's book publisher Groundwood Books for its poignant and funny portrayal of a teenage girl...[Jillian Tamaki's] monochromatic ink drawings with their fluid lines add powerful cinematic storytelling to [Mariko Tamaki's] minimalist text...Jillian's ability to catch the gestures and body language of the private school girls in their plaid skirts and knee socks equals Mariko's well-attuned ear for dialogue. The combination of words and images makes Skim a fully rounded and memorable character struggling with a welter of confused feelings...we feel for her...[Jillian Tamaki] has won several awards. It seems a sure bet that Skim will garner her a few more.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Calgary Herald","OtherText_Review_15":"A gorgeous, poetic pen line and sharp dialogue bring this angsty story of a disaffected teenage girl to life.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_16":"Jillian Tamaki's illustrations perfectly match the rough edges and continuous movement of Skim's teenage characters and reveal humour in the agonizing minutiae of high school life...Mariko Tamaki's text blends teen-speak with eloquence and wry one-liners...blending colloquialisms and sharp observations into something profound...","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_17":"No medium can capture the sense of being plunged into another person's mind like comics can, and Skim is the perfect example, its words and pictures and storytelling so unified in conjuring Kim's world that it comes as a surprise to see it has two creators rather than one...The careful layering of perception, desire, and reality is handled so deftly that the effect is almost subliminal...The Tamakis have done the hardest and most rewarding thing an artist can do: they have captured the texture of real life and made it into something beautiful.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_18":"The Tamaki cousins in their first graphic novel take a huge fistful of high school story trappings and distill a beautiful and funny time capsule of real feeling... Skim is a refreshing reminder of the inevitability of change and the importance of looking beneath the surface.","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)","OtherText_Review_19":"The tricky part with graphic novels is getting the story to be as good as the drawings, and [the Tamakis] have figured out a winning combination for sure. The story is riveting and will bring you right back to 11th grade angst within the first few pages. Jillian Tamaki has an especially expressive, loose style that lends itself beautifully to this slightly morose tale.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Bust","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_2":"...avoids all the cliches of a coming-of-age story...Original in every which way.","OtherText_Review_20":"This stunning coming-of-age novel will draw in not only GN buffs, who will appreciate the creative design and dramatic use of both illustration and narration, but also realistic-fiction fans who may not normally gravitate to the format but will find this a sympathetic standout.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","OtherText_Review_21":"Writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Jillian Tamaki stunningly entwine their acute dialogues and visual riches in brush, soft pencil and grey tones, illuminating this adolescent romance in all its conflicted depths. [Skim is the] most sophisticated and sensitive North American graphic novel debut of the year.","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Paul Gravett","OtherText_Review_22":"A quietly moving graphic novel...sharply witty and incisive...Long, languid lines portray Skim's turmoil and angst with pitch-perfect resonance...Recommend this to fans of Daniel Clowes's Ghost World, who have been waiting for another graphic novel of teen angst and suburban ennui.","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Valerie D'Orazio","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Friends of Lulu","OtherText_Review_3":"...intelligent choice...a sensitive and caring portrayal of youth...universal...a complete success...[Jillian's] storytelling is solid...[and] her art is very atmospheric...","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Gay Comics List","OtherText_Review_4":"...traverse[s] the turbulent landscape of high school with tenderness and a keen eye for the yearning of adolescent girls...From the particularities of slang to the bigger concepts like fear and isolation, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki capture the subtle details that comprise this understated part of life...a world [in] which anyone who has ever been a teenager would be able to relate to at some level...Jillian Tamaki's use of line and shadow is effective in rendering the psychology of characters and the moody spaces they find themselves in...Formally, Skim is interesting for its varied approach to panel-use. Some pages flaunt over 10 similarly sized and shaped panels while others reveal only one (often silent) borderless image. The overall effect reveals impressive artwork and many powerful scenes...Skim is a unique piece, one not to be missed. Highly Recommended. [Skim uses] high school as a fertile setting for pungent commentary on racial, cultural, and sexual issues...The narrative, mainly in diary form, feels accurate and realistic, drenched in a sense of confusion and nihilism, and the art, influenced by Craig Thompson's Blankets (2003), reflects the spare, gloomy emotional landscape in which Skim exists. This story will appeal to many female comics fans...","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":"...[Skim is a] stunningly emotional graphic novel...an artful jumble that is as true-to-life as it is diffuse...unfussy and immediate...The delicately lined art alternately expands and contradicts the prose to achieve layers of meaning, tone and irony...With honesty and compassion, this innovative narrative communicates a life just beginning, open and full of possibility.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"...[Skim] manages to avoid the usual cliches...The b\/w cirt is fluid and curvy and looks like it came straight out of a sketchbook. The little details are wonderful...Highly recommended for high school graphic novel colelctions, especially those catering to girls.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kliatt","OtherText_Review_7":"...rendered delicately...Mariko's writing is assured...Skim's self-searching entries are wrenched off or lit up by the next image...Skim comes into its own, building a teenage girl mood that's struggling observant and shyly heartfelt by turns.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vue Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"[Skim] is a convincing chronicle of a teenage outsider who has enough sense to want to stay outside...All in all, Skim offers a startlingly clear and painful view into adolescence for those of us who possess it only as a distant memory. It's a story that deepens with successive rereadings. But what will teenagers think? Maybe that they've found a bracingly honest story by a writer who seems to remember exactly what it was like to be 16 and in love for the first time.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_9":"Skim comes out on top...connects in every way...This graphic novel is a winner...a unique creation...Scenes are often hilarious and black-humoured as well as serious...Mariko Tamaki's prose captures an authentic adolescent voice that's dramatic, self-obsessed, funny, earnest, and sometimes glib...Skim is an unforgettable character in the tradition of Holden Caulfield-a clear social commentator on adult and adolescent behaviour whose ironic observations on social hypocrisy ring sharp and true...Illustrator Jillian Tamaki's fine draughtsmanship gives Skim a classic elegance that's missing in many other graphic novels...a powerful sense of mystical eeriness that deepens and enhances the story. 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They Say Blue
The highly anticipated children's book from award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Jillian Tamaki.
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Jillian’s full page illustrations are engrossing.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_6":"Even as the book grows darker, the fighting gets uglier and the inevitable loss of innocence draws closer, a sense of hope remains, and your empathy with the characters never falters. It’s difficult subject matter handled with grace.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"NOW Magazine","OtherText_Review_7":"A relentlessly unsentimental vision, built around the dawning recognition that there can be no escaping, that everything counts in large amounts.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Los Angeles Times","OtherText_Review_8":"At its heart, This One Summer is a coming-of-age story about an observer. . . . 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This One Summer
A unique story of friendship from the creators of the award-winning graphic novel Skim.
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A moving book about promises and the nature of stories.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2012-10-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A young motherless girl becomes friends with a teacher who is writing a novel. A moving book about promises and the nature of stories.","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
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That Night's Train
A young motherless girl becomes friends with a teacher who is writing a novel. A moving book about promises and the nature of stories.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Grandmother’s Visit
Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in this touching book about love and loss.
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ages 3
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Two Drops of Brown in a Cloud of White
A child’s joy on a snowy day finally helps her mother feel at home in their new country.
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Birds on the Brain
This sequel to the award-winning Book Uncle and Me features bird lover Reeni and her quest to save her city’s bird count event.
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ages 7
and up
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Good Night, Commander
A powerful, moving, prize-winning story about a child who has survived the Iran-Iraq war but has endured great loss.
