This book is about two Toronto girls teetering on the edge of teenagehood, spending their summer together at a lake town in Southern Ontario. But it felt like there was something missing linguistically, that the words weren’t as rich as the pictures, didn’t live up to the pictures.
There are full pages with no words at all, where the drawings were left to tell the story on their own. I certainly don’t have a problem with the words taking a backseat to the drawings, which I think is definitely what happens in this book. Now, what’s interesting, especially for me, a self-identified word-obsessed person, is that I felt the writing and plot were a bit … underwhelming compared to the illustrations. Edwards said in their review, “If you’re ever talking about masters of the comics artform you should be mentioning Jillian Tamaki.” The illustrations capture the easy, free feeling of long summer days when you’re a kid and rural/small town Ontario so perfectly. If we’re talking about how I’d rate this book, I’d give the visual art ten out of ten, no question. I mean, check out these gorgeous blue-purpleish drawings: Jillian’s (I’ll refer to them by their first names since they share a last one!) art is nothing short of incredible. This One Summer, a young adult novel by cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, is probably the most visually stunning graphic novel I’ve ever read.
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