I’ve long admired the way picture
books tap into our universal experiences, the skillful marriage of words and illustrations
having the power to immerse us in memories, hopes, and dreams.
In Every Life,
beautifully illustrated by Marla
Frazee, does just this. Inspired by a call-and-response, baby-naming blessing,
Frazee’s exquisite text is a stunning meditation of the various moments in life,
from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
Opening the book, my heart quiets, and a
gentle peace settles in. I find myself slowing down to pore over the pages,
savoring each image. In Every Life is about birth
and wonder, smiles and light, hope, and mystery.
A simple and profound meditation on the many wonders of life from two-time Caldecott Honor recipient Marla Frazee.
In every life, there is love and loss, hope and joy, wonder and mystery. With glowing art and spare, powerful text, Caldecott Honor-winning creator Marla Frazee celebrates the moments, feelings, and experiences, both big and small, that make up a life.
“In the night garden, you can lie on cool
grass and look up to the millions and trillions of stars...” There, our senses awaken to the sliver of a new moon, the burble of
a stream, and the hum of cricket song.
Hand-cut and collaged illustrations of
deep blues and greens, orange-reds, and creamy shades of white accompany the
reader on this nighttime exploration of the mystery and magic of a stroll
through a nighttime garden.
In the Night Garden is a soothing read,
perfect for sending young children off to sweet dreams at the end of a busy
day.
A gentle, collage-illustrated bedtime read about the often mysterious and always beautiful experiences to be found in nighttime spaces.
In the night garden fireflies look like fallen stars. Moonflowers unfurl and release their intoxicating perfume.
In the night garden you can lie on the cool grass and look up to the millions and trillions of stars…
In the night garden, nothing is as it seems and everything is made new. Blinking stars and pale moonlight might reveal a lone cat tiptoeing across a roof, luminous flowers unfurling in the cool air, a mama fox escorting her sleepy cubs home. Listen…
Spend time with a young child, and
you’ll immediately notice how intrigued they are by the smallest, seemingly
insignificant things. A crack in the sidewalk. The glimmer of a shiny stone. A
pill bug scuttling across the dirt. Everything is cause for noticing, wondering,
and myriad questions.
Welcome to the Wonder House is the collaboration
of poet/teachers Georgia Heard and Rebecca Kai Dotlich. Their poetry invites
readers to wander and wonder, notice, ask questions, and reflect on rooms such
as time and place, curiosity and praise.
Luminous,
mixed-media illustrations by Deborah Freedman make the journey from room to room
to room a visual adventure of its own.
This collection of poems, creatively presented in the format of an allegorical house, will engage anyone who has ever wondered "why?" as it shows young readers that wonder is everywhere-in yourself and in the world around you.
Welcome to the Wonder House, a place to explore the cornerstone of every great thinker-a sense of wonder. This Wonder House has many rooms-one for nature, one for quiet, and one for mystery, among others. Each room is filled with poems and objects covering a wide variety of STEAM topics, including geology, paleontology, physics, astronomy, creative writing, and drawing, that will inspire curiosity…
As the sun sets,
three siblings discover nature’s nighttime beauty in this soothingly rhythmic
and gorgeously illustrated bedtime picture book from the acclaimed
author-illustrator team behind Green on Green.
Gentle the evening. Sweeping the skies. Dark the shadows as twilight arrives. Rose the horizon, gleaming and bright. Twilight and evening and dark on light.
When the family dog trots away from the house at sunset, three siblings tumble
out the door to find him. Soon, they find themselves immersed in the luminous
colors, shades, and shadows of nature at night—both dark and light. They wander
through moonlit lavender meadows, past a timid fawn, beneath a snowy white owl,
and much, much more as the night deepens until, at last, they find their sneaky
pup.
