One Day

By Juck Lee (Author/Translator), Seung-youn Kim (Illustrator), Asuka Minamoto (Translator), Dianne Chung (Translator)

A boy imagines cosmic reunions to cope with his grandfather's sudden absence.

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48 pages

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Bookroo's summary

A young boy grapples with the sudden loss of his grandfather, clinging to the traces left behind. As he navigates his grief, he imagines his grandfather returning to the stars, seeking solace in the cosmic realm. This tender journey of imagination and remembrance explores how a child fills the void of loss through storytelling and reflection. Will his dreams bring him peace, or will the longing for a final goodbye linger? Discover a poignant tale of love, loss, and the boundless power of a child's imagination.

From the publisher

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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