Julia Denos is the illustrator of several books for
children, including Grandma’s Gloves by Cecil Castellucci and Just
Being Audrey by Margaret Cardillo. She is also the
author-illustrator of Swatch: The Girl Who Loved Color. Julia Denos
lives in Quincy, Massachusetts.
E. B. Goodale is an author, illustrator, and designer whose
debut picture book, Windows by Julia Denos, received an Ezra Jack
Keats New Illustrator Honor. She also illustrated Here and Now by
Julia Denos and is the author-illustrator of Under the Lilacs. E.
B. Goodale lives in Massachusetts with her family.
Julia Denos’s prose, spare, evocative and spiced with an
occasional, subtle rhyme, is very much in sync with the illustrator
E. B. Goodale’s mixed-media art…The highlight of the boy’s sojourn
is the end, when he returns home to see his mother in the window,
waiting for him. It’s a reassuring moment in these times, when
walking at night in a hoodie can have different, even troubling
associations for a child of color.
—The New York Times Book Review
It’s a genial take on city life, which makes the neighborhood seem
just as comforting as home, though the child’s home—just as
luminescent as the windows he or she passes—is surely the most
comforting of all. Ideal bedtime reading and a gorgeously
understated celebration of everyday enchantment.
—Booklist (starred review)
Readers will want to revisit these pages of impressionistic trees,
buildings that blur as they recede into the vanishing point, and
captivating combinations of fully realized scenes with transparent
objects outlined in delicate lines. The narrative ends with a
quickening step toward the loved one waving behind the curtain—and
a story shared in a snuggle. This evocative portrait elevates an
everyday routine to a wonder-filled walk of discovery. Perfect for
one-on-one and small group sharing.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Debut illustrator Goodale's delicately detailed ink, watercolor,
letterpress, and digital collage illustrations display palettes of
the evening and night skies with beautifully nuanced shades of
yellow, gold, and blue. The red-hooded child of color with dog
can't help but recall Peter and Willie, and this book is a lovely,
affirming follow-up. A warmhearted tale of a child, a dog, and
their peaceful, friendly, and inviting neighborhood.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Windows offers a…reframing of the everyday as something special,
and beautiful, and worthy of attention; it makes everyday lives
into a cozy art that we can all view and all make.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
Several recent picture books feature nighttime urban walks (The Way
Home in the Night, rev. 7/17; City Moon, reviewed in this issue);
this one stands out for its child protagonist’s independence, its
matter-of-fact portrayal of a diverse city neighbor- hood, the
emotion conveyed by the language, and the stunningly atmospheric
art.
—The Horn Book (starred review)
Julia Denos's (Swatch) second-person text invites the reader to be
an active participant in this pleasing book...E.B. Goodale brings
her very own Somerville to brilliant life in her first picture
book, using ink, watercolor, letterpress and digital collage. Each
page is awash with the colors of dusk as the sun slowly sets until,
finally, "you arrive home again, and you look at your window from
the outside. Someone you love is waving at you, and you can't wait
to go in."
—Shelf Awareness for Readers
It is an homage to late-autumn evenings, to excursions and to
homecomings. It teaches young readers how to slow down and pay
attention, to linger on an image and study its nooks and
crannies.
—Minnesota Parent
This picture book is its own kind of window, the turning of its
pages its own kind of stroll through the evening. And back again,
to where we belong, to home.
—New York Journal of Books
A boy walking his dog at twilight watches as windows blink to life,
like ‘a neighborhood of paper lanterns,” revealing the
early-evening comforts of coming home. Luminous.
—People
Mixed-media art is at once detailed and atmospheric, the sky
darkening from orangy glow to black over the course of 32 pages
that trace a nightly ritual from inside and out.
—San Francisco Chronicle
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