When Creature Met Creature
Author: John Agard
Illustrator: Satoshi Kitamura
Publisher: Scallywag Press
A sophisticated and moving picturebook about communication of all kinds. It opens with Creature-of-No-Words, who lives a happy enough life of feelings and sensations, but is sometimes struck with a feeling "like the chill touch of ice" with no way to articulate or process it. He is found one day by Creature-of-Words, who with no words spoken understands his pain, and invites him to share her world of words with a "hug!". With delicately chosen poetic language by John Agard, and accompanying vibrant and expressive illustrations by Kitamura.