The Animal
Published on 25. October 2019
Book
Hardback
38 pages
978-1-948730-90-7 (ISBN)
Description
Seeing the beauty of our planet with fresh eyes...
A visitor lands on Earth from a far away planet and is absolutely blown away by the beauty of nature. A carrot, a bird, and dandelion puff - he loves it all. He soon encounters a group of animals (a lion, a crocodile, an elephant, a goose, a fox, and an ostrich) who simply do not understand what he sees in such ordinary objects.
After spending some more time together, the friends soon understand the difference between looking at something and truly seeing it. Soon enough, they are able to truly appreciate the life flowing through all of the natural world.
A truly unique children's book from award winning husband and wife team David and Nonny
Newbery award winner David Kherdian and two-time Caldecott medalist Nonny Hogrogian have put together a timeless classic of mindfulness, reflection, and meditation. The beautiful illustrations perfectly complement the elegantly simple prose as a group of friends ponder the beauy of nature.
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Language
English
Target group
US School Grade: From Kindergarten to Preschool, Interest Age: From 2 to 10 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-948730-90-7 (9781948730907)
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David Kherdian is the author and editor of over eighty books, that include poetry, novels, memoirs, biographies retellings and children's books. His anthologies include Beat Voices, and two seminal works: Settling America: The Ethnic Expression of 14 Contemporary Poets and Forgotten Bread: Armenian American Writers of the First Generation. With his wife, two-time Caldecott Medalist, Nonny Hogrogian, they have managed three small presses, and as editor/art director, three disparate journals: Ararat: A Quarterly, Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, and Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal for Our Time. He has, with his presses, journals and anthologies, along with is own work, helped to place ethnic writing into the canon of American literature. It was following their flight from America after the 2017 election that Kherdian's long dormancy iin that form, that his poetry moved to a higher plane, resulting in his putting this book together with old work and new poems.His many awards include the Newbery Honor Book, The Friends of American Writers Award, the Boston Globe / Horn Book Award, the Jane Addams Award, a nomination for The American Book Award, and two lifetime achievement awards, The Emily Lee Award from his hometown, and The Armenian Star Award. His translations and retellings include the Asian Classic, Monkey: A Journey to the Wes, and the 9th century epic from Armenia, David of Sassoun, now out of print, with tentative plans for its reissue, being the book Kherdian considers his highest achievement as a writer. An hour long documentary of his poetry and life by filmmaker Jim Belleau was released in 1997, and can now be seen among his YouTube appearances.