A Year of Everyday Wonders

Description

With each new year come countless exciting firsts. From the highs-first snowfall, first new umbrella, first beach trip-to the lows-first missed bus, first lost umbrella, first sunburn-every year older means another cycle of experiences. In their clever, playful, observant picture book, acclaimed author Cheryl B. Klein and illustrator Qin Leng explore many truths of childhood through a calendar year of small moments that, all together, comprise what it is to be a kid.

Cheryl B. Klein loves celebrating firsts yearround, especially her first day without a jacket in spring, her first ice cream cone of summer, and the first blanket on her bed in fall. Wings, her debut picture book illustrated by Tomie dePaola, received two starred reviews. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Qin Leng is a children's author and illustrator whose Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin, written by Chieri Uegaki, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and received the APALA Picture Book Award. Leng made her authorial debut with I Am Small. She lives in Toronto.

"A delightful tale that is likely to be a perennial first at storytime." -- "Kirkus Reviews" **STARRED REVIEW** "Through detailed visual elements, this quietly delightful picture book speaks to the potential treasure of small moments in childhood." -- "School Library Journal" **STARRED REVIEW** "The cyclical aspect makes for a pleasing bedtime story wind-down as the year closes, but this is also a creative way to talk about time and, maybe, to explain how long it is until a months-away yearned-for event." -- "Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books" **STARRED REVIEW** "Klein's touch is light and Leng's movement-filled vignettes are harmonious as they capture the year in an album whose joys and disappointments become a cyclical, cumulative string of memories."-- "Publishers Weekly"