Sora and the Cloud - Hoshino, Felicia
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¿Hoshinös ink-and-watercolor spreads both provide historical information and convey the story¿s emotional weight¿and do both with grace.¿ ¿ Publishers Weekly A noted children¿s artist, Hoshino authors her first picture book, inspired by her own experiences as a mother. The growing boy Sora enjoys the ultimate daydream ¿ to soar like a cloud! Up in a tree a friendly cloud awaits! Hopping aboard, Sora and the Cloud share a breathtaking adventure in the sky. Birds, kites, and fireworks whirl by, as Sora connects his past experiences with the present. This poignantly underscores how joyful…mehr

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¿Hoshinös ink-and-watercolor spreads both provide historical information and convey the story¿s emotional weight¿and do both with grace.¿ ¿ Publishers Weekly A noted children¿s artist, Hoshino authors her first picture book, inspired by her own experiences as a mother. The growing boy Sora enjoys the ultimate daydream ¿ to soar like a cloud! Up in a tree a friendly cloud awaits! Hopping aboard, Sora and the Cloud share a breathtaking adventure in the sky. Birds, kites, and fireworks whirl by, as Sora connects his past experiences with the present. This poignantly underscores how joyful memories of childhood and parenthood bind a family together. This wonderful flight of fancy is created in Hoshinös evocative style of mixed media. Plus the bilingual Japanese translation highlights the empowering themes of self-discovery and cultural exchange.
Autorenporträt
Felicia Hoshino is an award winning artist. Her previous book A Place Where Sunflowers Grow won the 2007 Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2007 International Reading Association "Notable," and San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books of 2006. Felicia Hoshino was born in San Francisco, California where she continues to live with her family. As a student at City College of San Francisco, she enrolled in as many art classes as she could find, from figure drawing and ceramics to illustration and graphic design. Upon deciding to make art her career, she continued her education at California College of the Arts, where she earned a BFA in Illustration. Felicia’s prize-winning illustrations can now be seen in children’s magazines Cricket, Spider and Ladybug and in children’s books such as Little Sap and Monsieur Rodin and A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, both accepted into the Society of Illustrator’s The Original Art exhibition. Her most recent book is My Dog Teny, published by Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California. In addition to creating mixed-media images for children’s books and magazines, she enjoys illustrating children’s portraiture, cooking with her husband and decorating the walls at home with art created by her son and daughter. Visit her website at felishino.com.