A Face Is a Poem
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Look through the one-of-a-kind eyes of acclaimed author/illustrator Julie Morstad and explore the beauty, diversity and wonder of faces all around.
A face is a poem with all the parts put together, adding up to someone you love.
Have you ever stopped and looked, really looked, at a face? Do faces stay the same forever, or do they change? What if we could change faces to see through someone else's eyes? What if eyelashes were butterflylashes?
Julie Morstad guides readers through a playful and fantastical exploration of the unique eyes, noses, mouths, freckles, wrinkles, scars and all those one-of-a-kind marks that make up a face. Embracing commonalities and differences alike, A Face Is a Poem is an ode to the unique beauty of each and every person's appearance, with an empowering message of love.
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In delicate digitally finished multimedia drawings, Morstad (A Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse) meditates on faces—as seen in crowds, clouds, and elsewhere ("Even a potato/ has eyes!"). Each detail draws the viewer in: "The soft and smooth/ or crinkly skin,/ the just-so nose,// the delicate/ scratchy hairs/ and all those/ one-of-a-kind-marks." Images blend the real and the dreamlike, sometimes in black-and-white, sometimes in gently tinted wash. On one page, a group of people examines a huge sculpture of a head; on another, a starry constellation makes up a visage ("A face is a poem/ with all the parts put together,/ adding up to someone/ you love"). A grid of thumbnail-like portraits depicts beings young and old from arrayed angles—gazing up two nostrils, looking closely at a pair of lips. Other pages imagine faces traded ("to see through someone else's eyes") and survey expressions and imaginative features. "A face is to love," concludes this untethered session of wondering, a look at the way bodies and countenances can change and endure. Individuals are portrayed with various abilities and skin tones. Ages 3–7.
