A joyful celebration of Japanese cultural traditions and body positivity as a young girl visits a Bath House with her grandmother and aunties You\'ll walk down the street / Your aunties sounding like clip-clopping horses / geta-geta-geta / in their wooden sandals / Until you arrive...
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Her first author-illustrator picture book, Lala\'s Words , will be published in 2021 by Scholastic.
She graduated with her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Gracey Zhang is a freelance illustrator and animator.
Visit her on the web at kyomaclear.com.
One of her picture books, Virginia Wolf , has been adapted for the stage, and another, Julia, Child , is currently being adapted into an animated television series.
About author(s): Kyo Maclear is a critically acclaimed author whose books have received starred reviews, appeared on numerous Best of lists, and been published in multiple languages around the world.
Ahhhhhh! With a lyrical text and gorgeous illustrations, this picture book is based on Kyo Maclear \'s loving memories of childhood visits to Japan, and is an ode to the ties that bind generations of women together.
Until, at last, it\'s time, and they ease their bodies--their creased bodies, newly sprouting bodies, saggy, jiggly bodies--into the bath.
Once there, the rituals leading up to the baths begin: hair washing, back scrubbing, and, finally, the wood barrel drumroll.
In this celebration of Japanese culture and family and naked bodies of all shapes and sizes, join a little girl--along with her aunties and grandmother--at a traditional Bath house. / At the Bath House / The big Bath house.
A joyful celebration of Japanese cultural traditions and body positivity as a young girl visits a Bath House with her grandmother and aunties You\'ll walk down the street / Your aunties sounding like clip-clopping horses / geta-geta-geta / in their wooden sandals / Until you arrive..
