Winter Light by Aaron Becker
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| ISBN: 9781536236460 $17.99 US Candlewick Studio |
My thoughts: Artist/author Aaron Becker never fails to bring delights to us rich with his conceptualization of art, color, and light. In this delightful toddler's board book, Winter Light, he utilizes a snowflake cut out on every page. As one turns the page to read the short text, visualization of aspects of changing light are experienced through the cut out of the snowflake. The color changes as the pages are turned.
The text traverses the shortening of the hours of light as Winter approaches and the seasons change. But with the outside light changing, our inside lights also change to bring warmth, light, and hope with fireplace light, candlelight, and lights aglow on our seasonal celebration decorations.
Another Aaron Becker delight!
About the book: With an eye to holiday rituals and nature’s rebirth, New York Times best-selling creator Aaron Becker offers a luminous die-cut companion to You Are Light, My Favorite Color, and One Sky.
Hush, now. Be still.It’s time for winter light.
Come winter, the days grow short. Sunlight filters through bare branches as ice crystals cover the meadow. In this quiet time, we turn to warmth and light, to family rituals and traditions. With jewellike die-cuts revealing the colors of the season against soft painterly backgrounds, Caldecott Honoree Aaron Becker captures the light of winter skies and lengthening days, the glow of candle and hearth, and the heart’s yearning for spring’s return.
A Pinecone! by Helen Yoon
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| ISBN: 9781536226263 US $18.99 Candlewick Press |
My thoughts: In this picture book, the delights of collecting one of nature's beauties - a pinecone - is enthusiastically examined by a precocious little girl who just can't seem to get enough pinecones.
Whilst out with papa walking the dog, who has a mind of his own, she snatches and tucks away in every pocket, fold, and spot numerous pinecones. Such delight!
She collects so many they take over the house. Poor papa and the dog - living their papa and doggie lives in the background on these pages of delight - endure the invasion of the pinecones.
But there is more..... there is a vast assortment of teeny, tiny critters whose home is the pinecone and they come, too!
An absolutely adorable story of fascination, family living, family tolerance, and cause and effect. Plus a heaping of charm.
About the book: While Daddy is busy wrangling a mud-happy dog, someone else is collecting lots,/i> and lots of pinecones. Helen Yoon brings back the parent-child duo from Off-Limits in a droll celebration of high enthusiasm.
Daddy is a bit distracted on their autumn walk, while his curious child only has eyes for one of nature’s small a pinecone! And look, another pinecone! And another! In fact, she could gather an entire collection—an entire extended family—of pinecones if she wanted to (and she wants to!). But what then? In a story spun with visual comedy, the characters from Off-Limits return for a small adventure in outsize enthusiasm leading to a sparkly, holiday-cheer-worthy finish. Helen Yoon brings all her quirky warmth to bear on this tribute to little ones whose fixations tend to send them over the top—and the parents who lovingly help them to funnel all that passionate energy. And perhaps some of their own!
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