Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki - This One Summer

A fairly lovely 'one summer' story, main characters and inseparable summer cottage friends Rose and Windy both on the verge of teenagehood, although there are hints that Rose's additional 18 months of age are beginning to tell. The adult characters are rendered with some sophistication too, the town's older teens less so. There are plenty of little details to savour, some quite subtle - one recurring one that I enjoyed was the attentiveness to sound throughout - but the highlight is Jillian Tamaki's illustration work (they're cousins, writer and artist), dark blue on white and evocative.