The book published by Viking Penguin imprint Philomel won the Caldecott Medal. He has worked in many mediums, from authentic Chinese paper cuts to the soft, bright pastels of Lon Po Po, his 1989 telling of a Chinese “Red Riding Hood” fable, in which three sisters outwit a wolf who comes to their house.
He has illustrated 8o books, several of which he has written. Wabi Sabi, by Mark Reibstein and renown illustrator Ed Young (published by Little Brown and Company) was named one of The New York Times “Ten Best Illustrated Books” of 2008.Ī native of Tientsin, China who was a child in Shanghai during the World War II years, Young came to the United States in the 1950s and worked as a graphic designer before turning to children’s book illustration. “It can even be a little dark, but it is also warm and comfortable.” Wabi Sabi, the Japanese and Tao zen concept that is also the cat’s name, “finds beauty and harmony in what is simple, imperfect, natural, modest and mysterious.” A cat’s journey to find the meaning of her name leads her from her Kyoto home to the pine trees at the foot of Mount Hiei.Īnd there from a wise Zen monk-ey, our questing cat learns ‘a way of seeing’ that is at the heart of the culture of her land.
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