Thank You, Everything — Written and Illustrated By Icinori, Translated from French By Emile Robert Wong

STARRED REVIEW! ★ "Told with minimal prose, Thank You, Everything opens up the world to readers in a multitude of fascinating ways, leading them on a grand adventure. Icinori use a bold yet limited color palette to create wildly stylized, dynamic illustrations.

The pacing is perfect, prompting readers to appreciate small details (a bath towel, a caterpillar) while also admiring big, beautiful landscapes (a bustling city, a dark forest lit by a full moon). The narrative, translated from French by Emilie Robert Wong, is equally distinctive… This soothing yet exciting blend of art and prose will encourage young imaginations to soar. A delightful book filled with wonder and gratitude, feelings that will linger with readers." 

— BookPage

STARRED REVIEW! ★ "Paired with simple text made up of brief 'thank you' sentences, the story unfolds through the elegant, textured images... This is a tale that begs readers to linger and wonder about what it means to be grateful... A limited but vivid palette of primary colors simultaneously soothes with its blues and energizes with its red and yellows, creating an aesthetically pleasing, thought-provoking, and engaging experience. A whimsical, enriching, and deeply rewarding adventure in gratitude."

— Kirkus Reviews

“A child sets out on a fantastical journey of gratitude in this engrossing picture book. The illustrations defy characterization, with elements of geometric abstraction, neo-Impressionism, and linocut techniques all layered together in a limited palette of blue, red, and yellow… Invites children to explore the world around them with new appreciation for the extraordinary and the everyday.”

— Foreword Reviews

How important is gratitude? 

Recent credible research has pointed to gratitude's myriad positive health effects, including greater emotional and social well-being, better sleep quality, lower depression risks, and favorable markers of cardiovascular health.

An article in the Harvard Health newsletter discusses new 2024 data from the long-term Nurses' Health Study that shows that gratitude may also extend lives.

When one of our absolutely favorite speciality publishers — Enchanted Lion Books — announced its publication of Thank You, Everything, we knew we had to offer it to you and yours. 

Thank You, Everything is a dazzling picture book about gratitude — that's also an art book, a word book and perhaps, even a meditation or prayer — for any age.

This magnificent new title from Icinori starts as a word book of things to be thankful for and turns into a thrilling adventure story along the way!

Thank You, Everything" is a series of “thank yous” addressed to common objects that inhabit our daily lives that gradually builds into a thrilling adventure and fantastic journey across landscapes, seasons, and inner discoveries. 

Deceptively simple, each page acknowledges the contributions of a different object (spoon, rock, beasts) or concept (summer, slumber, surprise), with each image building on the next to create a dazzling narrative that invites readers to puzzle and play, explore and discover, appreciate and marvel.

Because of the immense talent and passion for their craft of the artistic duo known as Icinori, this vibrantly and colorful book is a visual tour de force and a an invitation to look at the world with new eyes.

Thank You, Everything was recently announced as one of BookPage's Best Picture Books of 2024 and one of 100 Scope Notes's Most Astonishingly Unconventional Books of 2024, and it's received multiple four-star reviews!

Beautiful and beautifully produced, this one-of-a-kind, 176-page picture book lifts up the centrality of gratitude and returns us to the wonderstruck attentiveness of childhood, inviting readers to recognize the world as many-splendored and vibrantly alive.

And truly, it's not just for kids, but well worth the quiet moments any teenager or grown-up might spend with it! Thank you, sun. Thank you, day. Thank you, river. Thank you, fork. Thank you, shoes.

The ritual of saying "thank you" — at any age — really does open up the heart just a little bit more...and it can do you a world of good!

THE DETAILS

Format: New, Hardcover

Published: December 10, 2024 

Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books

ISBN: 9781592704231

Pages: 176

Dimensions: 8.7" inches L x 8 x 8"inches W x 1" inch D

Rating: ★★★★★

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA FOR YOU

Six Questions and More to Evoke Gratitude

What happened today that was good?
What am I taking for granted that I can be thankful for?
Which people in my life am I grateful for?
What is the last book I read or movie, show, or social media clip I saw that I really appreciated, and why?
What am I most looking forward to this week, month, and year, and why?
What is the kindest thing someone has said or done lately?

Similarly, a few simple actions can infuse gratitude into your days. Try regularly expressing gratitude around the dinner table with family or friends. Another well-known practice — that's perhaps becoming forgotten in this digital age — is penning thank-you notes.

Writing a thank-you note or gratitude letter gets your mind to dwell on something positive for a longer period, to think more deeply about it, because you have to put it not just in words, but in writing, and it also deepens the relationship and builds that bond.

Our Pigeons are the perfect stationery to use to write thank-you notes and letters.

One less-recognized but valuable gratitude practice is called a "savoring exercise," which builds on aspects of mindfulness. All that's required is pausing, looking around you, and taking in and enjoying everything that's good in your current setting. 

ABOUT ICINORI

Who is Icinori?
A couple/duo/studio of cartoonists: Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller

We are cartoonists/plastic artists/publishers and we invest in a wide range of projects, illustration & graphic design, exhibitions, editions and teaching. We alternate between personal projects and collaborative work.

We have worked with Le Monde, New York Times, Wired, Les Inrocks, La Vie, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Forbes, XXI, Le Tigre, Dada, Canal +, Wired, Pompidou Metz, Council of Europe etc.

ABOUT ENCHANTED LION BOOKS

Enchanted Lion Books is an independent publishing company based in Brooklyn, NY. We opened our doors and published our first list in spring, 2003. We love books, well-told stories, and illustrations that open up the visual world and deepen a child's sense of story.

We select the books that we publish with great care. We seek out those that we believe children will enjoy and that reflect an individual voice or vision.

We live with the books we publish long before they go to press, and we share them within our communities. We also sleep with many books under our pillows, and we publish the ones that invade our dreams. We believe in the books we publish because they are beautiful and lively, thoughtful and full of feeling. They evince a fierce belief in the imagination, exploring the inner world as richly as the world around us.

Our books explore the feelings and imaginative lives of various animal and human characters, but they also travel out into northwest Pakistan, China during the Cultural Revolution and the Levantine world during the golden age of Arab science. We have published books from authors and illustrators in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland and the US.

As we all know, books help children to cross all kinds of boundaries and borders long before they begin to grasp the world through actual travel and experience. We thus take as our task that of connecting young readers to the wonderfully diverse modes of expression that exist in the world, so that in the end they will feel that the whole world—with all of its wonderful, surprising and very real similarities and differences—is their home.