Full Product Details
Author: Phoebe Wahl
Publisher: Tundra Books
Imprint: Tundra Books
Weight: 0.368kg
ISBN: 9781770497900
ISBN 10: 1770497900
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 09 January 2018
Recommended Age: From 4 to 8 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
There's an old-fashioned feel to this simple story and its timeless illustrations, created with watercolor, collage, and colored pencil and reminiscent of Goodnight Moon in mood, design, and palette .... A reassuring story about death in the natural world, thoughtfully designed and illustrated. - Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews <p/> This lesson of the interdependence among all living things in nature is gently told, accompanied by colorful watercolor and collage illustrations that show the multicultural family's life on a farm .... The story presents the circle of life in a very comforting but realistic manner. - Starred Review, School Library Journal <p/> The book combines the different emotions of joy, caring, passion, compassion and sadness in a most wonderful and simple way for a young child to grasp and appreciate. The flow of the story is captivating and the style would without doubt keep a child reading the text to the end. - The Deakin Review of Children's Literature <p/> The brilliantly colored artwork, produced in watercolor, collage, and colored pencil, is stunning .... The circled arms of her family mimic the embrace of the fox with his kits, emphasizing the oneness of the natural world's food chain in our interconnected world. - Booklist <p/>From the Hardcover edition.
There's an old-fashioned feel to this simple story and its timeless illustrations, created with watercolor, collage, and colored pencil and reminiscent of Goodnight Moon in mood, design, and palette .... A reassuring story about death in the natural world, thoughtfully designed and illustrated. - Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews This lesson of the interdependence among all living things in nature is gently told, accompanied by colorful watercolor and collage illustrations that show the multicultural family's life on a farm .... The story presents the circle of life in a very comforting but realistic manner. - Starred Review, School Library Journal The book combines the different emotions of joy, caring, passion, compassion and sadness in a most wonderful and simple way for a young child to grasp and appreciate. The flow of the story is captivating and the style would without doubt keep a child reading the text to the end. - The Deakin Review of Children's Literature The brilliantly colored artwork, produced in watercolor, collage, and colored pencil, is stunning .... The circled arms of her family mimic the embrace of the fox with his kits, emphasizing the oneness of the natural world's food chain in our interconnected world. - Booklist From the Hardcover edition.
Author Information
ArtistPHOEBE WAHL's work focuses on themes of comfort, nostalgia and intimacy with nature. She grew up unschooled in Washington State, and credits her free spirited childhood in the Northwest for much of her inspiration and work ethic. She works in a variety of mediums, from watercolor and collage to fabric sculpture. Phoebe graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration, and her first book,Sonya's Chickens, won her the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award. Phoebe lives in Bellingham, Washington.
