melhara's Reviews > Who Owns the Clouds?

3.75/5

5/5 for the illustrations
3.5/5 for the story

"Maybe memories are like clouds. Some, lighter, float high above; others are darker, weighing heavily on our shoulders for a long time, until the day we're finally ready to let them fly away.

That day will come. It's just a question of the winds."

Who Owns the Clouds? is a hauntingly poetic picture book about the fuzzy childhood memories of war.

I'm honestly more impressed by the illustrations than I am of of the writing. I absolutely loved the artwork by Gérard Dubois. The art is primarily in monochromatic gray with the occasional splash of colour (red or light blue). The art style looks a lot like printmaking (almost like linocut) which gives it a very appropriate vintage and moody quality that really complements the book's theme and captures the eeriness of war (from a child's perspective).