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Yugen
  • Published: 29 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781609808655
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 36
  • RRP: $35.00

Yugen

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Hardback
29 Jan 2019
EBook
9 Apr 2019
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The second collaboration between Young and Reibstein (Wabi Sabi) tells the poignant story of a boy remembering his mother.

Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.
  • Published: 29 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781609808655
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 36
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the authors

Ed Young

ED YOUNG (November 28, 1931 - September 29, 2023) was a renowned illustrator and writer of children's picture books. Born in Tientsin, China, he moved to the US as a young man, where he worked at an advertising agency before illustrating his first book, The Mean Mouse and Other Mean Stories by Janice May Urdry, in 1962. Since then he has illustrated over eighty children's books, seventeen of which he has also written. Throughout his long career he has received over fifty awards and honors, including the Caldecott Medal in 1990 for Lon Po Po, his retelling of a Chinese version of "Little Red Riding Hood," and Caldecott Honors for The Emperor and the Kite (1967) and Seven Blind Mice (1992). He has been nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition given to children's book authors and illustrators for their contribution to children's literature. His books frequently draw on folklore from Chinese, Native American, Indian, Persian, and other cultures, and he uses a variety of media, including pencil, pastel, ink, collage, cut paper, photographs, and found materials. Until his death in 2023, he lived in Westchester County, New York, with his two daughters and two cats.
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Praise for Yugen

Young captures moments of transcendent beauty." --New York Times

"Young's beautiful collages have an almost 3-D effect and perfectly complement the spiritual, lyrical text.... this is a book to be savored and contemplated ..." --School Library Journal

"Reibstein and Young have created a magnificent offering that is the embodiment of Wabi Sabi... Remarkably, the well-paced story is also ethereal, bringing readers, like its protagonist, to the edge of comprehension, then letting them absorb all that has come before to make their own connections. In this endeavor, the text is aided by Young's amazing collages. So lifelike are they that children will reach out to touch, and then touch again, not quite believing the art is one-dimensional... A glorious piece of bookmaking whose subject and execution will reach a wide age range." --Booklist, starred review"