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A Thousand Tiny Truths by Kyo Maclear
Category: Fiction
Marcel is ethnically ambiguous. Born of an affair and abandoned in infancy by his mother, he is a brown-skinned child struggling to find a way to belong in racially charged London. When his white surrogate father, Oliver, becomes a foreign correspondent reporting on the war in Vietnam, Marcel is left in ...Show more
Birds Art Life Death by Kyo Maclear
Category: Languages and Reference
A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life - a field guide to things small and significant. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a musician with a passion for birds. Curious about what had prompted a young urban artist to ...Show more
Birds Art Life Death: The Art of Noticing the Small and the Significant by Kyo Maclear
Category: Animals & Nature
We live in a world that prizes the fast over the slow, the new over the familiar and work over rest. Birds Art Life Death is Kyo Maclear's beautiful journey to stake out a sense of meaning amid the crushing rush. One winter Kyo Maclear felt unmoored. Her father had recently fallen ill and she suddenly f ...Show more
Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli by Kyo Maclear; Julie Morstad (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels
A dazzling first-person picture book biography of the life of a daring and different young girl from Rome, Italy, who used art to make fashionEand it was quite marvelous. Back matter included. Full color.
Flo: A Picture Book by Kyo Maclear
Category: Picture Books
Meet Flo, a relaxed little panda. In a world with so much to do, she likes to sleep in, explore, and enjoy everything around her. But sometimes Flo takes too much time to get going, and the other pandas get impatient. One day they find themselves in trouble, and it's Flo's floppy ways that just might sa ...Show more
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear
Category: Children's Non Fiction
From beloved team Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad (creators of Julia, Child and Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli) comes an elegant picture book biography that portrays the most moving moments in the life of Gyo Fujikawa, a groundbreaking Japanese American hero in the fight for racial d ...Show more
Julia, Child by Kyo Maclear; Julie Morstad (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Julia and Simca are two young friends who agree that you can never use too much butter - and that it is best to be a child forever. Sharing a love of cooking and having no wish to turn into big, busy people who worry too much and dawdle too little, they decide to create a feast for growing and staying y ...Show more
Mr. Flux by Kyo Maclear
Category: Graphic Novels
Martin and his neighbors eschew change until eccentric Mr. Flux moves in and shows them that change can be big or little or even fit inside a box, and not at all scary. A tongue-in-cheek tale loosely inspired by the 1960s art movement known as Fluxus.
Spork by Kyo Maclear /Isabelle Arsenault
Category: Picture Books
Spork sticks out. In his kitchen, spoons are spoons and forks are forks. Mixing is uncommon. Even though he tries to look more spoonish, and then more forkish, Spork never gets chosen at mealtimes. He seems destined to life in the drawer ... until one day something arrives that doesn’t care about cutler ...Show more
Story Boat by Kyo Maclear; Rashin Kheiriyeh (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
When a little girl and her younger brother are forced along with their family to flee the home they've always known, they must learn to make a new home for themselves-wherever they are. And sometimes the smallest things-a cup, a blanket, a lamp, a flower, a story-can become a port of hope in a terrible ...Show more
The Fog by Kyo Maclear
Category: Picture Books
Warble is a small yellow warbler who lives on the beautiful island of Icyland, where he pursues his hobby of human watching. But one day, a deep fog rolls in and obscures his view. The rest of the birds don't seem to notice. The more the fog is ignored, the more it spreads. When a Red-hooded Spectacled ...Show more
The Good Little Book by Marion Arbona (Illustrator); Kyo Maclear
Category: Children's
While banished to a dusty study one day 'to think things over', a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read. As the afternoon passes, the story nabs him and carries him away. Before long, this good little book becomes his loyal companion, accompanying him everywhere. Until, o ...Show more