This Table
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
For fans of Sophie Blackall’s Farmhouse comes a gorgeous story of one table and the life that grows around it.
This moving picture book traces a table and its transformation: from a seed to a tree to a treasured object in a home. Strong and stable through the years, the table becomes a space for being together: for birthday parties and science projects, and meals big and small. With captivating text and lush illustrations, This Table will inspire conversations about the everyday, ordinary objects in our lives, and their role in creating lifelong memories.
The table was strong and stable.
It was placed in the middle of a room in the middle of a house, and life grew up around it.
It was perfect for birthday cakes
and catching a slice of morning light,
for drawing imaginary worlds, and unfolding maps to discover real ones.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Killian, making a picture book debut, and Smart (Families Belong) celebrate how a farm-style dining table, born from a single helicopter seed, becomes "the heart of someone's home." Expertly shaped, sanded, stained, and sealed so it radiates a warm luster, the former tree becomes "strong and stable," serving as center stage for a busy extended family, portrayed with various abilities and skin tones. The table holds birthday cakes, puzzles, and projects of all kinds; becomes the infrastructure for a blanket fort for "secret club meetings"; and hosts "many meals big and not so big." Warm-hued, close-lined double spreads occasionally depict the table in two different time periods, as when its left side is the scene of a brightly lit and cheerily decorated birthday party, while the right side suggests a moment early the next day—remnants of the decorations still linger, and the grown-up who orchestrated the party is now feeding a baby as morning light streams in. Pieces of furniture like the table may no longer strictly be living things, but they are essential parts of human life, creating spaces for "gathering, and sharing stories, and being together." Ages 4–8.
