What a delightful book!
Young children need books - they have their whole lives ahead of them, the entire world is at their feet. Books help children to read and learn, to think, to discover and to question.
Books are one of the stepping stones in that wonderful and universal adventure that is called life. With books children (and parents) can learn there is more to the world than the internet and social media (honest, there really is!).
Absolutely gorgeous illustrations and a storyline in simple verse, provide a book where you can read both the pictures and words at the same time adding to the pleasure and experience.
The illustration on the first page is a delightful start to the story with a group of animals gathered on a hilltop, looking out on a long lake and mountain range drawing our eye to the distance, the beyond. Questions - who are we? What are we? Where are we? What is in that lake and where does it go? What are these mountains and where do they lead to? What is beyond the mountains??! This first page sets the whole tone and theme for the book.
Different perspectives are illustrated of looking up into trees to explore, to enquire, and then we are looking down from the trees. What is up there in the trees? What is down on the ground?
Questions, questions - but what are the answers? The answers are an adventure called life, your life. It is OK to
look, to ask, to wonder, to query - that is how you learn.
The World at Your Feet has been written to encourage you on your adventure. Whether you read the book on your own or if it is being read to you, this book is at your side to share your journey.
Such a delightful extract and illustrations. If only I could have had this book as a child, taking the first steps of my adventure in life, it would have become one of my favourites.
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What a gorgeous cover - sitting there looking out onto the whole world in front of them. A beautiful illustrative technique, enticing me to look, to enquire - what is the book about?
What a shame it is not for my maturer age, I could just buy it anyway, pretend it is a gift for someone else.
Young children need books - they have their whole lives ahead of them, the entire world is at their feet. Books help children to read and learn, to think, to discover and to question.
Books are one of the stepping stones in that wonderful and universal adventure that is called life. With books children (and parents) can learn there is more to the world than the internet and social media (honest, there really is!).
Absolutely gorgeous illustrations and a storyline in simple verse, provide a book where you can read both the pictures and words at the same time adding to the pleasure and experience.
The illustration on the first page is a delightful start to the story with a group of animals gathered on a hilltop, looking out on a long lake and mountain range drawing our eye to the distance, the beyond. Questions - who are we? What are we? Where are we? What is in that lake and where does it go? What are these mountains and where do they lead to? What is beyond the mountains??! This first page sets the whole tone and theme for the book.
Different perspectives are illustrated of looking up into trees to explore, to enquire, and then we are looking down from the trees. What is up there in the trees? What is down on the ground?
Questions, questions - but what are the answers? The answers are an adventure called life, your life. It is OK to
look, to ask, to wonder, to query - that is how you learn.
The World at Your Feet has been written to encourage you on your adventure. Whether you read the book on your own or if it is being read to you, this book is at your side to share your journey.
Such a delightful extract and illustrations. If only I could have had this book as a child, taking the first steps of my adventure in life, it would have become one of my favourites.
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What a gorgeous cover - sitting there looking out onto the whole world in front of them. A beautiful illustrative technique, enticing me to look, to enquire - what is the book about?
What a shame it is not for my maturer age, I could just buy it anyway, pretend it is a gift for someone else.