Soyeon Kim
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the creators of You Are Stardust and Wild Ideas comes a new informational picture book that explores how humans are inextricably connected to nature. This book draws examples from the clouds and the cosmos, the seafloor and the surface of our skin, to show how we are never alone: we are always surrounded and supported by nature. Whether it's gravity holding us tight; our lungs breathing oxygen synthesized by plants; the countless microorganisms...
Author
Language
English
Description
Vibrant language and rhythm celebrate the start of a new day in this uplifting poem about a city waking up.
On a beautiful, sunny morning, a family runs errands along a city street. They visit a bakery, flower shop and fruit market. Exuberant in sounds and sights-a baker sugaring tarts, flowers greeting passers-by and pigeons cooing-the story ends as a new day of sparkling possibility begins. Written in pantoum form and illustrated with delightful...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yu-Rhee, a young Korean girl, wants to know how to tell time using a clock. Her mother tells her a tale from her childhood based on the traditional Korean practice of timekeeping, where the 12 animals of the zodiac are assigned to 2-hour sections of the 24-hour clock. Told from the point of view of a mountain, the story follows a child as they climb the mountainside in search of a plant to heal their ailing mother. The climb is steep, the path wild...