What If One Day by Bruce Handy - 2023 Picture Book-image
What If One Day by Bruce Handy - 2023 Picture Book-image

What If One Day by Bruce Handy - 2023 Picture Book

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Illustrator: Corrin, Ashleigh, Yes Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books, LLC Item Width: 10.6 in brand: Enchanted Lion Books, LLC Intended Audience: Juvenile Audience Item Weight: 24.1 Oz Item Length: 10.7 in Publication Year: 2023 LC Classification Number: PZ7.1.H36365Wh 2023 ISBN-13: 9781592703838 LCCN: 2023-027197 Synopsis: A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2023! An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! A Bookstagang Best of 2023 Winner: Best Illustration! This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin plays with the idea of how life would be if certain of the things we love most were no longer here. What if one day, all the birds flew away? Mornings would be quieter. Skies would be plainer. Worms could relax. What if there were no more bugs? What if there ceased to be day and night? By asking how our world would change if it lacked birds, water, or people, and how we would feel about that, this playful text from Bruce Handy ( The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth ), accompanied by joyful art from Ashleigh Corrin ( Layla's Happiness ), invites readers to celebrate the beauty and wonder of existence, and all that makes our world what it is. So often, our gaze is on the future, on that better world to come, but what if the world as it is--with light and water, salt, earth, and animals, plants and insects, air and stars and French fries--is sufficient, and it is only us who have not known how to cherish it, or to love it all well enough? This book reminds us that all we need is here, if only we attend!, Age range 5 to 8 This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin plays with the idea of how life would be if certain of the things we love most were no longer here. What if one day, all the birds flew away? Mornings would be quieter. Skies would be plainer. Worms could relax. What if there were no more bugs? What if there ceased to be day and night? By asking how our world would change if it lacked birds, water, or people, and how we would feel about that, this playful text from Bruce Handy ( The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth ), accompanied by joyful art from Ashleigh Corrin ( Layla's Happiness ), invites readers to celebrate the beauty and wonder of existence, and all that makes our world what it is. So often, our gaze is on the future, on that better world to come, but what if the world as it is -- with light and water, salt, earth, and animals, plants and insects, air and stars and French fries -- is sufficient, and it is only us who have not known how to cherish it, or to love it all well enough? This book reminds us that all we need is here, if only we attend!, This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin plays with the idea of how life would be if certain of the things we love most were no longer here. A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2023! A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2024! An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! A Bookstagang Best of 2023 Winner: Best Illustration! What if one day, all the birds flew away? Mornings would be quieter. Skies would be plainer. Worms could relax. What if there were no more bugs? What if there ceased to be day and night? By asking how our world would change if it lacked birds, water, or people, and how we would feel about that, this playful text from Bruce Handy ( The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth ), accompanied by joyful art from Ashleigh Corrin ( Layla's Happiness ), invites readers to celebrate the beauty and wonder of existence, and all that makes our world what it is. So often, our gaze is on the future, on that better world to come, but what if the world as it is--with light and water, salt, earth, and animals, plants and insects, air and stars and French fries--is sufficient, and it is only us who have not known how to cherish it, or to love it all well enough? This book reminds us that all we need is here, if only we attend! Reviews: " What if One Day... is a fun and beautiful 'what if' book... Illustrations are filled with yellows, oranges and browns with rough edges and easy, swooping imaginative imaging... Lots of fun! Recommended for libraries that cater to the younger set." --Pam Watts, Head of Children's Services (Robbins Library, Arlington, MA), for Youth Services Book Review , STARRED REVIEW, A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2023! A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2024! An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! A Bookstagang Best of 2023 Winner: Best Illustration! A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2023! "Pondering hypothetical disappearances, Handy's playful text and Corrin's by turns quiet and ebullient pictures create a satisfying rhythm: Precious things (water, the setting sun) are taken from us, and then joyfully returned.", An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! "Engages in the sort of extravagant speculation that children love... An affectionate work that asks what might happen if commonplace things disappeared... every sequence in the book follows the pattern: First there's a hypothetical, then outcomes both prosaic and fantastical, and lastly a friendly reminder that, in fact, there are birds and colors (and water and bugs and people). What if one day you read this book to some 3- to 8-year-olds? I think they'll like it." --Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal "This joyful prose poem by Handy, illustrated with playful, hand-lettered spreads by Corrin, approaches gratitude in an unexpected way: by considering the space that beloved entities might leave behind... Sequences propose and provoke, inquiring about a world absent of a given thing--water, plants, nighttime, insects--and then affirming that thing's empirical existence. Following 'What if one day...// all the colors faded away?' the revelation of a rich reality bursts forth in rainbow shades: 'But there are COLORS!' Upbeat, sunny, and philosophically creative, these lines leave behind a sense of startled freshness that mimics the relief of having a bad dream, and waking up from it." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW " What if One Day... is a fun and beautiful 'what if' book... Illustrations are filled with yellows, oranges and browns with rough edges and easy, swooping imaginative imaging... Lots of fun! Recommended for libraries that cater to the younger set." --Pam Watts, Head of Children's Services (Robbins Library, Arlington, MA), for Youth Services Book Review , STARRED REVIEW "Handy's latest picture book explores what might happen should different parts of our world suddenly be erased... Depicting racially diverse characters, Corrin's full, vibrant spreads convey movement and stillness, humor and pensiveness, hitting just the right visual tones." --Kirkus An Airmail Best! "Gorgeously illustrated." -- Airmail, "Engages in the sort of extravagant speculation that children love... An affectionate work that asks what might happen if commonplace things disappeared... every sequence in the book follows the pattern: First there's a hypothetical, then outcomes both prosaic and fantastical, and lastly a friendly reminder that, in fact, there are birds and colors (and water and bugs and people). What if one day you read this book to some 3- to 8-year-olds? I think they'll like it." --Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal "This joyful prose poem by Handy, illustrated with playful, hand-lettered spreads by Corrin, approaches gratitude in an unexpected way: by considering the space that beloved entities might leave behind... Sequences propose and provoke, inquiring about a world absent of a given thing--water, plants, nighttime, insects--and then affirming that thing's empirical existence. Following 'What if one day...// all the colors faded away?' the revelation of a rich reality bursts forth in rainbow shades: 'But there are COLORS!' Upbeat, sunny, and philosophically creative, these lines leave behind a sense of startled freshness that mimics the relief of having a bad dream, and waking up from it." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW " What if One Day... is a fun and beautiful 'what if' book... Illustrations are filled with yellows, oranges and browns with rough edges and easy, swooping imaginative imaging... Lots of fun! Recommended for libraries that cater to the younger set." --Pam Watts, Head of Children's Services (Robbins Library, Arlington, MA), for Youth Services Book Review , STARRED REVIEW "Handy's latest picture book explores what might happen should different parts of our world suddenly be erased... Depicting racially diverse characters, Corrin's full, vibrant spreads convey movement and stillness, humor and pensiveness, hitting just the right visual tones." --Kirkus, A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2024! "With playful call and response, the author asks us to consider what would happen if various attributes of our daily lives were to disappear. Splashy illustrations, double-page spreads.", An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! "Engages in the sort of extravagant speculation that children love... An affectionate work that asks what might happen if commonplace things disappeared... every sequence in the book follows the pattern: First there's a hypothetical, then outcomes both prosaic and fantastical, and lastly a friendly reminder that, in fact, there are birds and colors (and water and bugs and people). What if one day you read this book to some 3- to 8-year-olds? I think they'll like it." --Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal "This joyful prose poem by Handy, illustrated with playful, hand-lettered spreads by Corrin, approaches gratitude in an unexpected way: by considering the space that beloved entities might leave behind... Sequences propose and provoke, inquiring about a world absent of a given thing--water, plants, nighttime, insects--and then affirming that thing's empirical existence. Following 'What if one day...// all the colors faded away?' the revelation of a rich reality bursts forth in rainbow shades: 'But there are COLORS!' Upbeat, sunny, and philosophically creative, these lines leave behind a sense of startled freshness that mimics the relief of having a bad dream, and waking up from it." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW " What if One Day... is a fun and beautiful 'what if' book... Illustrations are filled with yellows, oranges and browns with rough edges and easy, swooping imaginative imaging... Lots of fun! Recommended for libraries that cater to the younger set." --Pam Watts, Head of Children's Services (Robbins Library, Arlington, MA), for Youth Services Book Review , STARRED REVIEW "Handy's latest picture book explores what might happen should different parts of our world suddenly be erased... Depicting racially diverse characters, Corrin's full, vibrant spreads convey movement and stillness, humor and pensiveness, hitting just the right visual tones." --Kirkus An Airmail Best! "A delightful new picture book explores one of children's favorite pastimes: speculating about the future... Adults love what-ifs... And as any parent could tell you, kids love hypotheticals, too. What if one day, all the birds flew away? What if, one day, the sun never set? A new picture book written by Bruce Handy and illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin explores those questions, and others, playing through various scenarios while always reminding its young readers to appreciate the now... Gorgeously illustrated." -- Airmail, "This joyful prose poem by Handy, illustrated with playful, hand-lettered spreads by Corrin, approaches gratitude in an unexpected way: by considering the space that beloved entities might leave behind... Sequences propose and provoke, inquiring about a world absent of a given thing--water, plants, nighttime, insects--and then affirming that thing's empirical existence. Following 'What if one day...// all the colors faded away?' the revelation of a rich reality bursts forth in rainbow shades: 'But there are COLORS!' Upbeat, sunny, and philosophically creative, these lines leave behind a sense of startled freshness that mimics the relief of having a bad dream, and waking up from it." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW " What if One Day... is a fun and beautiful 'what if' book... Illustrations are filled with yellows, oranges and browns with rough edges and easy, swooping imaginative imaging... Lots of fun! Recommended for libraries that cater to the younger set." --Pam Watts, Head of Children's Services (Robbins Library, Arlington, MA), for Youth Services Book Review , STARRED REVIEW, An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! "'What if one day,' the book begins, breaking the question across a page turn, 'all the birds flew away?' The answers are sometimes poignant: 'Skies would be plainer,' goes the text, set against a breathtaking expanse of blue, interrupted only by a baseball in flight and a child's arm. And sometimes they're funny: 'Worms could relax,' our narrator suggests, alongside an illustration of a few chilled-out specimens living their best vermian lives. Just as we're becoming accustomed to this strange, birdless world, a miracle occurs: 'But there are BIRDS!' a double-page spread proclaims. Birds noisily, joyfully sing and flit about. It feels as if they might fly right off the page. Handy's playful text creates a satisfying rhythm--precious things are taken from us and then returned--and he introduces enough surprises to keep it fresh over the book's 80 pages. Corrin's pictures are wonderful, by turns ebullient and intimate." --Author Mac Barnett, for the New York Times "Engages in the sort of extravagant speculation that children love... An affectionate work that asks what might happen if commonplace things disappeared... every sequence in the book follows the pattern: First there's a hypothetical, then outcomes both prosaic and fantastical, and lastly a friendly reminder that, in fact, there are birds and colors (and water and bugs and people). What if one day you read this book to some 3- to 8-year-olds? I think they'll like it." --Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal "This joyful prose poem by Handy, illustrated with playful, hand-lettered spreads by Corrin, approaches gratitude in an unexpected way: by considering the space that beloved entities might leave behind... Sequences propose and provoke, inquiring about a world absent of a given thing--water, plants, nighttime, insects--and then affirming that thing's empirical existence. Following 'What if one day...// all the colors faded away?' the revelation of a rich reality bursts forth in rainbow shades: 'But there are COLORS!' Upbeat, sunny, and philosophically creative, these lines leave behind a sense of startled freshness that mimics the relief of having a bad dream, and waking up from it." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW " What if One Day... is a fun and beautiful 'what if' book... Illustrations are filled with yellows, oranges and browns with rough edges and easy, swooping imaginative imaging... Lots of fun! Recommended for libraries that cater to the younger set." --Pam Watts, Head of Children's Services (Robbins Library, Arlington, MA), for Youth Services Book Review , STARRED REVIEW "Handy's latest picture book explores what might happen should different parts of our world suddenly be erased... Depicting racially diverse characters, Corrin's full, vibrant spreads convey movement and stillness, humor and pensiveness, hitting just the right visual tones." --Kirkus An Airmail Best! "A delightful new picture book explores one of children's favorite pastimes: speculating about the future... Adults love what-ifs... And as any parent could tell you, kids love hypotheticals, too. What if one day, all the birds flew away? What if, one day, the sun never set? A new picture book written by Bruce Handy and illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin explores those questions, and others, playing through various scenarios while always reminding its young readers to appreciate the now... Gorgeously illustrated." -- Airmail, "This joyful prose poem by Handy, illustrated with playful, hand-lettered spreads by Corrin, approaches gratitude in an unexpected way: by considering the space that beloved entities might leave behind... Sequences propose and provoke, inquiring about a world absent of a given thing--water, plants, nighttime, insects--and then affirming that thing's empirical existence. Following 'What if one day...// all the colors faded away?' the revelation of a rich reality bursts forth in rainbow shades: 'But there are COLORS!' Upbeat, sunny, and philosophically creative, these lines leave behind a sense of startled freshness that mimics the relief of having a bad dream, and waking up from it." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW " What if One Day... is a fun and beautiful 'what if' book... Illustrations are filled with yellows, oranges and browns with rough edges and easy, swooping imaginative imaging... Lots of fun! Recommended for libraries that cater to the younger set." --Pam Watts, Head of Children's Services (Robbins Library, Arlington, MA), for Youth Services Book Review , STARRED REVIEW "Handy's latest picture book explores what might happen should different parts of our world suddenly be erased... Depicting racially diverse characters, Corrin's full, vibrant spreads convey movement and stillness, humor and pensiveness, hitting just the right visual tones." --Kirkus Topic: concepts / General, Animals / General Language: English gtin13: 9781592703838 Grade From: Preschool Author: Bruce Handy Genre: Juvenile Fiction Format: Picture Book ISBN-10: 1592703836 Number of Pages: 80 Pages Grade To: Third Grade Item Height: 0.6 in Book Title: What if One Day...

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Further Details Title: What If One Day... Condition: New Author: Bruce Handy Illustrator: Ashleigh Corrin Contributor: Ashleigh Corrin (Illustrated by) Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 1592703836 EAN: 9781592703838 ISBN: 9781592703838 Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books Genre: Children's Books Topic: Baby & Picture Books Release Date: 11/09/2023 Description: A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2023! An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! A Bookstagang Best of 2023 Winner: Best Illustration! This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin plays with the idea of how life would be if certain of the things we love most were no longer here. What if one day, all the birds flew away? Mornings would be quieter. Skies would be plainer. Worms could relax. What if there were no more bugs? What if there ceased to be day and night? By asking how our world would change if it lacked birds, water, or people, and how we would feel about that, this playful text from Bruce Handy ( The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth ), accompanied by joyful art from Ashleigh Corrin ( Layla's Happiness ), invites readers to celebrate the beauty and wonder of existence, and all that makes our world what it is. So often, our gaze is on the future, on that better world to come, but what if the world as it is—with light and water, salt, earth, and animals, plants and insects, air and stars and French fries—is sufficient, and it is only us who have not known how to cherish it, or to love it all well enough? This book reminds us that all we need is here, if only we attend! Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 254mm Item Length: 260mm Item Width: 16mm Item Weight: 694g Release Year: 2023 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

  1. This charming picture book sparks imagination with its playful "what if" scenarios and vibrant illustrations. Bruce Handy's whimsical text pairs perfectly with Ashleigh Corrin's lively artwork, creating a delightful read-aloud experience. Kids will love exploring the silly possibilities while parents appreciate the subtle messages about creativity and curiosity. A wonderful addition to any child's bookshelf!

    Vladimir Grigalashvili

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