This One Summer (2014)

Won: Governor General's Literary Award, children's literature (illustration), 2014. Honors: Caldecott Honor and Printz Honor, 2015. The first graphic novel the Caldecott committee ever honored, and a Governor General's winner for Jillian Tamaki's art in Canada. Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki follow Rose through a lakeside summer as her parents' marriage strains and the local teenagers' dramas spill into view. Jillian's blue-ink drawings carry the long, wordless stretches of a vacation when nothing and everything happens. Despite the Caldecott, a prize for picture books, this is a frank teenage story that suits readers of about thirteen and up, and adults.