Peace is an Offering
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A warm, comforting poem about finding peace in a community of neighbors
Peace is an offering.
A muffin or a peach.
A birthday invitation.
A trip to the beach.
Join this group of neighborhood children as they find love in everyday things—in sunlight shining through the leaves and cookies shared with friends—and learn that peace is all around, if you just look for it. With rhyming verse and soft illustrations, this book will help families and teachers look for the light moments when tragedy strikes and remind readers of the calm and happiness they find in their own community every day.
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"Peace," a very big idea, becomes more approachable and achievable when it is reframed as acts of kindness, comfort, and community. "Peace is an offering./ A muffin or a peach," writes LeBox as Graegin shows a girl visiting an injured, bedridden friend. "A birthday invitation./ A trip to the beach." Having established peace as something more than a cessation of hostilities, the collaborators underscore the importance of mindfulness and intent, distinguishing peace from perfunctory courtesy and niceness. An offering of peace really means, "Will you stay with me?/ Will you be my friend?/ Will you listen to my story till the very end?" LeBox (Circle of Cranes) can't resist slipping in a few bromides ("Catch a falling star"), and an allusion to 9/11 feels unnecessary, but she's successful in making a book that will resonate with both secular and faith-based audiences. Graegin's (Forget Me Not) calm, tightly rendered, and warm-hued drawings actually do much of the narrative heavy lifting, portraying believable, ordinary children who are empathic peacemakers in their everyday lives. Ages 3 5.
