THIS ONE SUMMER Tops PW Comics World’s 2014 Critics Poll By PW Staff |  Dec 17, 2014 “A slowly unfolding tale of a lazy summer as unforgettable for readers as for the characters in its pages, This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki has topped our 2014 Critics Poll with six votes. Already…

The French edition of THIS ONE SUMMER (Cet été là) has just been nominated for the 2015 Prix Artémisia for women’s graphic novels. For détails of the prize, click here.

This One Summer is a Time Top Ten YA Book of the Year! “Charcoal-and-ink illustrations beautifully capture the heartbreak of family depression, and the growing pains a child feels entering scary, thrilling teenagerdom.” Link: http://time.com/3600001/top-10-ya-books/ Time has chosen a total of thirty books as their top titles of the year – ten fiction, ten nonfiction,…

THIS ONE SUMMER has won the Canadian Governor General’s Prize in the Children’s Literature illustration category! Congratulations to Jillian and Mariko Tamaki! And also to the publishers First Second Books and Groundwood Books and the authors’ agents, The Rights Factory in Toronto.