Who Are You?
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- $149.00
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- $149.00
Descripción editorial
A young girl spends the day exploring the outdoors, and as she does, she realizes that every experience--from watching butterflies flit to feeling the sting of raindrops--shapes who she is meant to become. A perfect gift for graduation or any special occasion.
Who are you?
asks the wide world around me.
I am the solid rock beneath me,
the soft clouds above me
and the air moving through me
With each step in nature, a young girl contemplates her place in the world. The question, "Who Are You?" becomes a mantra, asked by the wide sky above and the valley below. It echoes through her adventures as she encounters life's simple treasures—a fallen acorn, a graceful butterfly, the embrace of a towering tree. But everything isn’t sunshine and butterflies. There are also unexpected challenges—the sting of raindrops, the uncertainty of darkness. But as the girl perseveres, she realizes that every moment—light or dark—is part of the journey that will lead her to where she needs to be and who she is meant to become.
Here is a moving and whimsical picture book that places value on who you are, not what you are.
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The natural world reiterates the title's existential question in this adventuresome yet grounding meditation. As a pale-skinned young figure and their dog explore the wilderness, asked "Who are you?" by the world around them, first-person narration offers guiding declarations from atop a cliff ("I am the horizon/ stretching out before me"), alongside a stream, and the like. When the "howling wind" utters the refrain and a storm pours down, lines acknowledge the possibility of temporary defeat ("I am the trail/ I cannot see"), but moonlight and the comfort of home illuminate further modes of attachment. Earthy-hued colored-pencil-like sketches draw out the prose's reassuring warmth, with auburn tones evenly backlighting inky nighttime scenes. Keane offers a centering path forward in this portrait of self-discovery through connection. Ages 4–8.
