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One Day
by Lee Juck
Age Range: 6-8
For anybody, dealing with loss is a very difficult thing to do; it is a hard concept to grasp. As life continues to move on as normal without the person who passed away, we are left alone in the dark with many questions, many of which are unanswerable. The author of One Day, Lee Juck, is a singer-songwriter and lets the line “Grandpa is gone” serve as the chorus, always returning between the lines of the first-person main character trying to grapple with where their grandpa went.
Translated from Korean to English by a team of translators (Asuka Minamoto, Lee Juck, and Dianne Chung), One Day portrays the honest themes of loss that can resonate with anybody who has dealt with this confusing part of life. Each illustration by Kim Seung-youn supports this motif of emptiness by showing the main character on each page in a quiet, minimalist setting. What makes the story the most heartfelt is the double gatefold at the very end of the book, where the main character and the grandpa are standing on green and yellow planets in a long, expansive space, indicating the main character imagining the location where grandpa has gone, “somewhere far, far away. A Place across the universe, full of dazzling stars.”
Catherine Hurwitz (Feb22)