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About A Year Without Mom
Product Description It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America ― a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves. Dasha Tolstikova’s major talent is on full display in this gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel. Review Deceptively simple, but with great narrative sophistication . . . Fascinating and heartfelt. ( Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW 2015-08-12) An absorbing graphic memoir. . . . Readers will wish the sequel were available instantly. ( Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW 2015-08-18) Needs to be attentively appreciated and engagingly savored. Just as [Tolstikova's] text is candid and direct, so, too, her black-and-white-with-splashes-of-color line drawings exude simple charm and whimsy. ( BookDragon 2015-09-02) A perceptive story about change, aloneness, ambition and, ultimately, resilience. ( New York Times 2015-09-11) A quiet, moving, and contemplative story of growth. ( Booklist 2015-10-15) Told in quiet fragments, sewn together with ribbons of girlhood. ( National Post 2015-10-10) Moving and beautifully illustrated . . . in sparingly coloured and expressive drawings that invite readers to linger. ( Winnipeg Free Press 2015-10-10) A lovely portrayal in words and art of a year in the life of an engaging tween girl from the other side of the world. ( School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW 2015-11-13) The author includes authentic details . . . and, with personality and sincerity, creates an accessible, truthful, and relatable record for readers of a different generation. ( Horn Book Magazine, STARRED REVIEW 2016-01-01) The excitement of meeting a teen actor, the agony of a crush, the pain of changed friendships — all this resonates cross-culturally. ( The Toronto Star 2016-01-03) Review A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year, 2016Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year, 2015Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Graphic Novels of the Year, 2015USBBY Outstanding International Books, 2016“Deceptively simple, but with great narrative sophistication . . . Fascinating and heartfelt.” ― Kirkus, starred review“An absorbing graphic memoir. . . . Readers will wish the sequel were available instantly.” ― Publishers Weekly, starred review“A lovely portrayal in words and art of a year in the life of an engaging tween girl from the other side of the world.” ― School Library Journal, starred review“The author includes authentic details . . . and, with personality and sincerity, creates an accessible, truthful, and relatable record for readers of a different generation.”― Horn Book, starred review About the Author Dasha Tolstikova is the author/illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir A Year Without Mom. Dasha also illustrated The Jacket, by Kirsten Hall (New York Times Review Notable Book of 2014); If a T-Rex Crashes Your Birthday Party, by Jill Esbaum; Friend or Foe, by John Sobol; and Violet and the Woof, by Rebecca Grabill. Dasha’s illustration work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
