Lucie and the Wind
In this exhilarating picture book about environmental appreciation, a girl goes out exploring each day. She jars the treasures she finds on her walks, bringing them home for her own nature-based cabinet of curiosities. An encounter with the wind forces her to reframe her experiences, though—relishing in, rather than trying to contain, nature. The textured illustrations represent an exciting mix of styles; they include geometric elements, dots reminiscent of Yayoi Kusama’s work, Lucie’s charming matryoshka face, and ragged realism intertwined with cheeky exaggerations when it comes to natural features like the sea, tree branches, flowers, and cliffs in the clouds.
Reviewed by
Michelle Anne Schingler
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