Foreword Reviews only recommends books that we love. No fee was paid by the publisher for this review. The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Ages four to eight.ĭisclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. The remarkable illustrations are achieved through scherenschnitte, or papercutting, which is then painted with watercolors in a technique used in nineteenth-century German Pennsylvania. Robust and delicately articulated at the same time, it boasts an usually sophisticated color palette of black, amber, and green. It focuses on being thankful for the harvest and encourages all creatures to live together in peace, praising the elements that allow us to survive and likening the air to God, in its invisibility and ability to sustain life. 1200), this book couldn’t be lovelier, in words or images. A reimagining of Saint Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of the Creatures” (ca.
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