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• Winner of Winner - AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2022 2022

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9781797204673

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"""Hughes presents an impressionistic picture-book biography...[an] emotional journey."" -- The Horn Book Magazine ""[D]etailed and fascinating...The book will beguile older readers."" -- School Library Journal ""The illustrations...delicately render his life. An ambitious attempt to chronicle the life of a complex artist."" -- Kirkus Reviews ""Hughes pays careful attention to the surfaces of Noguchi's sculpture--the heavy grain of wood, the dark gleam of polished stone--to create a visually elegant telling."" -- Publishers Weekly ""With Hughes' own skill, the complexities of Isamu's life and art are thoughtfully designed and exquisitely rendered."" -- Booklist, starred review"

The illustrations...delicately render his life. An ambitious attempt to chronicle the life of a complex artist. -- Kirkus Reviews Hughes pays careful attention to the surfaces of Noguchi's sculpture--the heavy grain of wood, the dark gleam of polished stone--to create a visually elegant telling. -- Publishers Weekly With Hughes' own skill, the complexities of Isamu's life and art are thoughtfully designed and exquisitely rendered. -- Booklist, starred review

Hughes pays careful attention to the surfaces of Noguchi's sculpture--the heavy grain of wood, the dark gleam of polished stone--to create a visually elegant telling. -- Publishers Weekly With Hughes' own skill, the complexities of Isamu's life and art are thoughtfully designed and exquisitely rendered. -- Booklist, starred review ?-- With Hughes' own skill, the complexities of Isamu's life and art are thoughtfully designed and exquisitely rendered. -- Booklist, starred review

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Emily Hughes is the illustrator for the beloved Charlie and Mouse series and Everything You Need for a Treehouse. She was born in Hawaii and lives and works in the United Kingdom.

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