A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi

If you are Isamu, stones are the most special of all. How can they be so heavy? Would they float if they had no weight? James Yang imagines a day in the boyhood of Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi — wandering through a market, through a forest, along the ocean, seeing the world as only an artist (and a child!) can. Stones look like birds. And birds look like stones. Spare and meditative and beautiful, this is a book about the particular quality of attention that makes an artist — and about finding comfort and wonder in the natural world. It's a particularly wonderful book for any child who is quiet and curious and sees things a little differently.