Suzy Lee

What can you do with a pencil? Create lines that skate across a page with a single figure in a red hat and mittens. When lines become too chaotic, an eraser smooths them and a new skater is introduced. Just imagine what happens when more lively but delicate lines, skaters, and erasures come together in the last pages of this inventive book.

What can you see in shadows? A girl imagines she sees a crocodile and more — until the light returns with a click. Limited colors energetically depict her imagination. Her musings are reminiscent of shadow puppetry (and just may inspire creation of them, too).

No words are needed to share a child’s seaside adventure as she plays with the waves, is knocked down by one, and then discovers the sea’s gifts brought to shore by the wave. Softly lined wash in a limited color palette evoke a summer afternoon on the beach.