Korea
Wave
By Suzy Lee,
Wave. Suzy Lee. Chronicle Books, 2008. Originally published in Korean. ISBN 9780811859240. 44p. (Ages 1-99). Picture book.
Multiple award-winning Suzy Lee was Korea’s first winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2022. Best known for her wordless books, Wave is a wordless story of a little girl who goes with her mother to play on the beach. Designed in alternating black and white and color pages (in which the girl is in black and white, and the ocean in vibrant blue), it captures the alternating delight and fear of the little girl as the waves ebb and surge. She ends up soaked by a tremendous wave, but finds delight in the sea stars and shells it leaves behind. [dj]
Latin America
Chile
The Beach
By Sol Undurraga, Kit Mod (Translator)
The Beach. Sol Undurraga. Translated by Kit Maude. Tapioca Stories, 2022. Originally published as La playa in Spanish by Saposcat, Santiago, Chile, in 2019, but actually first appeared as La plage in French by l’Agrume, in Paris, France, in 2017, likely a translation of the original Spanish text. ISBN 9781734783940. 32 p. (Ages 6-9). Picture book.
Children can explore the different types of people who visit the beach and the different things they do there within a 24-hour period. They will also get to use their imagination about the types of creatures at the beach and activities that could happen there. Winner of the Opera Prima Award at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the Green Island Award at the Nami International Picture Book Contest. The author-illustrator is from Chile and currently lives in Berlin. [jm]