![]() ![]() Miyakoshi’s technique involves heavy contrasts and the use of value as a tool through which she reflects a sombre mood. The darkened street is alive with movement. ![]() The storm scene is superbly depicted featuring heavy rainfall, gusting winds, and billowing clouds. The phenomenally detailed charcoal illustrations add depth to an otherwise simple story. The artist even uses the end pages to encapsulate the changing mood of the protagonist, contrasting the way that he feels at the story’s beginning and end. ![]() Miyakoshi’s sparse written text is augmented by her heavily textured monochromatic artwork. He hopes his dream world fantasy will enable him to enjoy his desperately awaited beach outing. His slumber is filled with dreams of a conquering ship with big propellers that blow the storm away. Despite reassurances that, if their beach day is rained out, there will be plenty of other opportunities, the boy goes to bed scared and disappointed. There’s a bad storm coming,” the teacher warns. “Be sure to go straight home after class. Much to the boy’s dismay, however, on the eve of the beach day a huge storm is approaching. In Japanese storyteller Akiko Miyakoshi’s new book The Storm, a young boy’s parents have promised a day at the beach. “If we can’t go tomorrow, we’ll go next week,” my mother says. Review by Gregory Bryan and Kylie Wiebe-Pantel. ![]()
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