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]