"Mariko and Jillian Tamaki bottle up adolescence." -The Los Angeles Times
Mariko Tamaki is a writer of comics and young adult novels. Her
books include the graphic novels Skim and This One Summer with
Jillian Tamaki, and Emiko Superstar with Steve Rolston. Her
upcoming works include a YA novel, Saving Montgomery Sole, and a
comic about teen lez heartbreak. www.marikotamaki.com
Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and comics artist. She lives in
Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches at the School of Visual Arts and
makes illustrations for magazines, newspapers, websites, and books.
She is known for her embroideries on the Penguin "Threads" cover
series, as well as the acclaimed graphic novel Skim, co-created
with Mariko Tamaki. jilliantamaki.com
"*This book is poignant and melancholy, and it will be swiftly
recognizable to those who only recently hovered at the cusp of
adolesence." --BCCB, STARRED REVIEW "*This captivating graphic
novel presents a fully realized picture of a particular time in a
young girl's life, an in-between summer filled with yearning and a
sense of ephemerality." --School Library Journal, STARRED
REVIEW
"*A summer of family drama, secrets and change in a small beach
town . . . Keenly observed and gorgeously illustrated - a triumph."
--Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW "*With a light touch, the Tamakis
capture the struggle of growing up in a patchwork of summer moments
. . . Wistful, touching, and perfectly bittersweet." --Booklist,
STARRED REVIEW
"If I worked at a bookstore, I'd be hand-selling it to customers
who adored Raina Telgemeier's graphic memoir Smile but are now
ready for more complex themes...This is a lovely book." --The New
York Times
"[This One Summer] manages to evoke the nuances, the confusions, of
a pair of characters on the cusp." --Los Angeles Times
"Mariko's strengths as awriter lie in her subtlety and her ability
to convey whole worlds of feelingwithin a few lines of dialogue."
--National Post "I loved it." --Craig Thompson "Jillian's art is
simply gorgeous, and the perfect companion to the beautiful--and
sometimes painful--truth behind Mariko's every word." --Stephanie
Perkins "This One Summer is so vivid and beautifully told, that I
saw, heard, and felt every moment. This tender and oh-so-true story
of one girl's pivotal summer is a stand-out." --Deb Caletti "A rare
treasure of a book, like a summer caught and pressed between the
pages." --Svetlana Chmakova "I read this in July, and spent the
rest of the summer thinking about it. Every bike on a dusty road
and gleefully swimming kid made me think about this book, and how
it so eloquently and perfectly captures the feeling of summer--
slow, lazy and somehow hectic and astounding and full-- that we
spend every year after the age of 18 trying to remember. " --Lucy
Knisley "This One Summer is a precisely written, exquisitely
illustrated exploration of the moment when childhood tips over into
adolescence. For the second time the Tamakis have raised the bar
for young adult comics." --Hope Larson "The most beautiful thing
I've ever seen." --Faith Erin Hicks "This One Summer is a
beautiful, relatable story of that summer everyone has had, where
things happen around you but nothing happens to you." --Julie
Halpern "Read this and remember that time. Read this and feel the
innocence and the intimate, wrestling out at the beach. Read this
and keep it like a secret, or let it run wild like a bonfire night.
Read this for the joy and the grit, the tears and the sunburn, what
you can't remember and what you'll never forget. Read This One
Summer and swear you were there." --Daniel Handler
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