Here with Me
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
From the illustrator of the bestselling If Animals Kissed Goodnight comes this author-illustrator debut about the everlasting bonds of love and family.
If you could be a different kind of you,
what would you wish to be?
A monkey in a tree?
Would you be a fluffy fox?
A slow-moving sloth?
Or maybe, if you had the choice,
you wouldn’t be different at all…
because maybe, right here with the ones you love
is the best place in the world to be.
Here With Me is the perfect gift, especially on Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Valentine’s Day!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Sometimes I sit and wonder/ who I would choose to be/ if I could wish a wish/ to be a different kind of me." A small, tan-furred rabbit sits on a rock in the forest, its fuzzy paw pointed toward its head in an indication of deep thought as it considers the possibilities. What about a fox? "I'd bounce through the forest/ till it was time for bed." A bear? "I'd be big and scary/ with my grrr, grrr, grrr!" Repeated animal sounds offer chances for listeners to chime in. In soft, scumbled painterly spreads, Walker (the If Animals Kissed Good Night series) paints the rabbit meeting the animals and mimicking their actions, its winning face scrunched up in a rabbit smile. Visibly textured strokes add a sense of cuddly fuzziness. After turning to imaginative prospects throughout, the rabbit returns to the security of the familiar world: "But I would never choose/ a different kind of me,/ because right here with you,/ is where I want to be." In a sweet solo debut, Walker affirms the importance of the child's primary bond—and the first stirrings of imagination and independence. Ages 3–6.
