The Only Child

A New York Times Best Illustrated Book Hailed by Entertainment Weekly and the Wall Street Journal as a best book of the year this gorgeous and imaginative storypart picture book part graphic novelis utterly transporting and original. USA Today declared it a compelling and melancholy debut from an important new talent" as well as "an expansive and ageless book full of wonder sadness and wild bursts of imagination. And like Shaun Tans The Arrival and Raymond Briggss The Snowman it is quickly becoming a modern classic. A little girllost and alonefollows a mysterious stag deep into the woods and like Alice down the rabbit hole she finds herself in a strange and wondrous world. But... home and family are very far away. How will she get back there? In this magnificently illustratedand wordlessmasterpiece debut artist Guojing brilliantly captures the rich and deeply-felt emotional life of a child filled with loneliness and longing as well as love and joy. A haunting wordless gorgeously drawn picture book. People Told wordlessly through soft dreamy illustrations Guojings tale evokes the loneliness of growing up under Chinas one-child policy. Entertainment Weekly A dreamy wordless debut. The New York Times "Majestic.... Rare is the book containing great emotional depth that truly resonates across a span of ages: this is one such." Kirkus Reviews Starred "Reminiscent of Raymond Briggss classic The Snowman (1978) this is quiet moving playful and bittersweet all at once." Booklist Starred