There are reasons why some books end up winning multiple awards. The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher is one of them.
"The book won a 1981 Caldecott Honor Book award, a 1980 Boston Globe-Horn Book honor book award for Illustration, A Children's Reviewer's Choice 1980 award, ALA Booklist award, a 1980 AIGA Children's Book Show Selection award."
A wordless picture book (candidly, I had no idea that there was such a thing as wordless picture book, but apparently there is!), Molly Bang tells a fascinating story of the relentless stalking of the grey lady by the strawberry snatcher.
The illustrations are mesmerizing and the story despite being wordless has a tension to it. It has this pulsating motion that kept me wanting to find out more of what would be the next scene and the next and the next...
The Strawberry Snatcher pursues the Grey Lady like a shadow. He creeps in upon her when she is in the wilderness, in the swamps, when she is about to catch a bus, and kept me on the edge.
It's spooky with a surprise ending to it.
Image source: www.amazon.com | Publisher: Four Winds Press
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