#442 of 1001 · October 16, 2021

Take a gander at @paulowenlewis’s mysterious and captivating Frog Girl, a companion to his earlier work Storm Boy. A chief’s young daughter ventures beneath a lake to a land of sentient, humanoid frogs. The leader of the community is bemoaning the loss of her brood, captured and taken away by human boys. The wrath of Grandmother Frog ignites a volcano, whose eruption sparks a forest fire that threatens to burn down the girl’s village. However, after the girl finds the stolen frogs and returns them to their home under the lake, the rains put out the fires, the village is saved, and the girl tells her people of her newfound kinship with their amphibian neighbors. Written under the guidance of a cultural advisor, and with a portion of its proceeds having been donated to the Haida Gwaii Rediscovery program for tribal youth, the story combines folkloric motifs from the Haida, Tlingit, and other native tribes of the Pacific Northwest and draws inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s template of the “hero’s journey”. Lewis’s illustrations honor the tradition of Pacific Northwest art in their depiction of both the mundane and the supernatural. #frog #girl #frogs #volcano #book #books #childrensbooks #beautifulbook #beautifulbooks #beautifulbookcover #beautifulbookcovers #picturebook #picturebooks #picturebookillustration #picturebookillustrations #picturebookart #childrensbookillustration #childrensliterature #illustration #kidlit #kidsbooks #bookworm #booklover #booklovers #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #instabook #instabooks