One Day
One Day
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One Day

Written by Lee Juck & illustrated by Kim Seung-youn
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4 - 7
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48
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May 25, 2021
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A boy’s grandfather goes away suddenly, never to return. How could he leave just like that, without even saying goodbye? His smell remains in his sweater, and his shoes wait to be worn, but he is nowhere to be found. As the boy looks and wonders, a refrain runs through his mind, Grandpa is gone. The boy lingers in the midst of his grandfather’s things, to feel him and remember, but also as a way of beginning to say goodbye. There in the quiet, the boy begins to imagine his Grandfather returning to the planets and stars, the faraway home from which he must have come. This is a beautifully made book, in which the cosmic dimension of the story inhabits its very construction. It is a wonderful story of agency and imagination, showing a child navigating the very process of filling the absence that death brings through storytelling and self-reflection.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781592703135
    Publication Date
    May 25, 2021
    Publisher
    Enchanted Lion Books
    Page Count
    48
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    4 - 7 years

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