Over the Ocean

published by Chronicle Books LLC, written and illustrated by Taro Gomi and translated from the Japanese by Taylor Norman

The book cover of "Over the Ocean" by Taro Gomi shows a young girl facing away from us, staring at where the ocean meets the cloudy sky. The Batchelder Award seal has been affixed in the upper right, below the corner.

About

Using spare text and vivid illustrations, this wistful picture book invites wonder about the broader world beyond the horizon of what is known. A child poses questions that contemplate people, place, and the possibility that someone somewhere might be just like you.

Awards Won

Title Year
"" Mildred L. Batchelder Award
This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
 2017 - Honor(s)