![]() On a perfect summer's day, people head to an idyllic, secluded beach, sheltered from prying eyes by green-fringed cliffs that soar around the cove. The graphic novel is a fantastical mystery written by award-winning French writer and filmmaker Pierre Oscar Lévy and illustrated by award-winning Swiss comic book artist Frederik Peeters. Starring Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abbey Lee, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Embeth Davidtz, Eliza Scanlen, Emun Elliott, Kathleen Chalfant, and Thomasin McKenzie, the movie is expected to be released in the US this July and in the UK in August. ![]() Leng says one of the challenges in illustrating A Day For Sandcastles is that she only had one location to work with she had to make each page look a little different, so it wasn't all blue sky, yellow sand, blue water.The trailer was unveiled during the Superbowl 2021. They keep getting bigger, more elaborate. It's sort of like a conversation."Īs the day goes on, the siblings take a lunch break on the beach before building yet another sandcastle. "And they'll have, you know, fierce disagreements in classrooms. "They have their own memories that they'll connect," he says. Lawson says one of the things he didn't expect was how much kids would want to interact with a wordless picture book. "As the reader, you have to piece it together and sort of solve the riddle, you know, figure out what is happening on the page." "I've noticed my son is more engrossed in observing the small details on the panels rather than just listening to me read the sentence and moving on to the next page," Leng says. ![]() JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng agree that one of the best parts about wordless picture books is the experience of sharing them with kids. "I always think about the reader and the longevity of the book, and I want them to be able to discover something new every time they revisit the book." "What I love to do when I illustrate picture book is to add side stories to the main storyline," Leng explains. She also added in a lot of personal touches. For A Day For Sandcastles, she used a fountain pen with the smallest nib she could find to make very detailed, very refined illustrations with a very light watercolor wash. ![]() Leng spent part of her childhood in France, and says she is inspired by European comic books. I like to draw them in the day-to-day mundane moments, but moments that all of us can relate to." "This is the sort of thing I like to capture. "To me, it's a celebration of childhood and the simple joys of life," says Leng. A trio of siblings - who Lawson says even look like his kids, though he didn't share photos with Leng - spend the day building sandcastles and watching them get destroyed by a flying hat, an errant toddler and the surf. Leng illustration's stay pretty true to real life. "It's a real collaboration that way because how it then appears is completely Qin," says Lawson. įor the new book, Lawson gave Leng a short manuscript - basically a one-page movie script - of what he was picturing. It's the second wordless picture book for Lawson and Leng since 2021's Over The Shop. "Like the whole thing would just be visual."Ī Day For Sandcastles is illustrated by Qin Leng. "It seemed like it would work beautifully without words," he says. When he decided to turn that sunny day into a children's book, the idea came to just use pictures. how life works more than just building your perfect sandcastle," says Lawson. But they found it more exciting to build right where the waves hit, seeing their sandcastles get destroyed, and then re-building them with whatever debris washed up from the ocean. He wanted them to build their sandcastles closer to the dunes. "I kept trying to get them to come back because I thought it was a terrible idea," he says. Illustrations copyright © 2022 by Qin LengĪbout 10 years ago, JonArno Lawson was at a beach in Virginia watching his kids build sandcastles right next to the waves.
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