That Book
Translated by Kendall Heitzman
About
A book-loving king decrees that every citizen must read — but what happens when an entire kingdom tries to share a single story? Naoki Matayoshi, the award-winning author of Spark, teams with beloved illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake for a graphic novel that is equal parts fairy tale and meditation on what books actually do to the people who read them. The illustrations are warm, witty, and deceptively simple, carrying philosophical weight in the guise of a children's story. It's a book about books that avoids the usual cliches about the magic of reading and finds something stranger and truer to say. A love letter to reading that's honest enough to admit that not every book changes every life — and that's fine.
