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By (author) Icinori; Translated by Robert Wong, Emilie

This magnificent new title from Icinori starts as a word book of things to be thankful for and turns into a thrilling adventure story along the way

A BookPage Best Picture Book of 2024!

One of 100 Scope Notes‘s Most Astonishingly Unconventional Books of 2024!

One of Maria Popova’s Marginalian Favorites of 2024!

What starts as a series of “thank yous” addressed to common objects that inhabit our daily lives gradually builds into a fantastic journey across landscapes, seasons, and inner discoveries.

Deceptively simple, each page acknowledges the contributions of a different object (spoon, rock, beasts) or concept (summer, slumber, surprise), with each image building on the next to create a dazzling narrative that invites readers to puzzle and play, explore and discover, appreciate and marvel.

Aaron Becker’s Journey meets Carter Higgins’s Circle Under Berry in this visual tour de force and invitation to look at the world with new eyes.

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A BookPage Best Picture Book of 2024!

One of 100 Scope Notes‘s Most Astonishingly Unconventional Books of 2024! “The text begins with simple thank you statements, but it soon becomes apparent that these images are building on each other and an adventure is taking shape. Visually stunning and open to interpretation, as a good unconventional book should be.”

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One of Betsy Bird”s Caldenotts of 2024! “Supremely lovely, this is the kind of book a kid could pore over for long periods of time, immersed in this beautiful world. How else could I possibly conclude this write-up, except to say, thank you, Icinori!”

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Featured in the New York Times Book Review! “This coffee-table-worthy picture book is a catalog of wonders from which children can create their own narratives.”

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A Parade Best New Book of the Week! “In this meditative, lovely picture book, author and illustrator Icinori floats readers through all the things we can be grateful about. Filled with bold, bright and simple graphics, it travels through a day, thanking everything from the alarm clock (I suppose) to the bed (sure!) to the sink and the glass holding the water from the sink. It’s simple, yes, but the images are so smile-inducing and alive with pleasure, the text so disarming, you might just find this a good for the adults and teens in your life as much as the kids.”

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STARRED REVIEW! & “Paired with simple text made up of brief ”thank you” sentences, the story unfolds through the elegant, textured images… This is a tale that begs readers to linger and wonder about what it means to be grateful… A limited but vivid palette of primary colors simultaneously soothes with its blues and energizes with its red and yellows, creating an aesthetically pleasing, thought-provoking, and engaging experience. A whimsical, enriching, and deeply rewarding adventure in gratitude.”

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STARRED REVIEW! & “Striking, stylish illustrations distinguish an epic read from creative team Icinori. Crisp-edged, silkscreen-like images in a palette of muted red, faded gold, and deep turquoise give the pages the look of vintage advertisements… The ambitious, world-girdling expedition… recasts exploration in an unexpected language.”

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STARRED REVIEW! & “What starts out feeling like a mature version of Goodnight Moon, with objects being thanked rather than told goodnight, quickly transforms into a mysterious, sprawling adventure… The vocabulary creates images just as the illustrations do, with expressive phrases like ‘thank you, cacophony’ and ‘