The Path
A Picture Book About Finding Your Own True Way
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Perfect for a new generation of path-forgers, this buoyant picture book from an award-winning author and New Yorker cover artist is a hip new take on the graduation book.
With an exclusive bonus print from Bob Staake inside the jacket.
On this playfully illustrated journey with Bob Staake, children and adults alike will discover an encouraging truth: our path through life is not only challenging and beautiful—it is all our own to discover and invent.
"You will walk. You will walk along a well-worn path that many people have taken—and long before you." So begins this inspirational journey over gentle, grassy hills, through fields of wildflowers, over raging rivers, up steep mountains, and even through a dark, chilly cave. When it splits in two, you will have to decide what to do next—and you'll create a path that's unique to you.
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A small humanoid figure with a curlicue of hair and a shifting fantastical skin color embarks on a white, winding path in this extended visual metaphor for life's journey. At first, the "well-worn path that many others have taken before you" is a veritable walk in the park: it "might weave through valleys of wildflowers bathed in the warm sunlight," writes Staake as the figure walks through rolling fields dotted with red flowers. But sometimes it gets tough: big gray boulders block the path, followed by a dark forest, "terrifying and dangerous rivers," and a cave that could be a dead end. But the figure, never daunted, emerges triumphant, ready to blaze a trail that's all their own. Alongside the sentimental text, Staake's graphical worldbuilding, which keeps even the purportedly frightening moments steeped in the natural world's beauty, is high style all the way. Includes a detachable poster. Ages 4–8.
