The Inker’s Shadow by Allen Say
14 Sep, by in Children/Picture Books, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction
Caldecott Medalist author/illustrator Allen Say introduced his personal portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-young-man in the one title he didn't illustrate, the autobiographical middle-grade novel, The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice, originally published in 1979. More than three decades later, in 2011, Say returned to his early artistic journey, reworking his Apprentice into a...