"The book is a testament to Martin’s immense artistic talents. Truly stunning." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
With gorgeous artwork and a spare text, an award-winning picture-book creator gently celebrates the natural world through the lens of a sunrise.
As the sun slowly rises, many things happen in a small window of time. The world comes alive with the actions of animals, plants, clouds, and sky. A deer drinks, an owl wakes, a dandelion shimmers in the light. A ladybug climbs, a fish jumps, birds call in a chorus. Geese fly away in formation. A flower blooms. Beautifully illustrated with glowing imagery and written with a charming simplicity holding appeal for new readers, Marc Martin’s ode to the slow-blooming beauty of a sunrise and the life that unfolds in its radiance narrows the lens to show the wonder of time passing.
The book is a testament to Martin’s immense artistic talents. Truly stunning. —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Martin (A Stone Is a Story) employs delicate, luminous watercolor, pencil, and digital panels, captioning them with simple words, to limn quiet moments of drama in the natural world. . . .A contemplative work that captures the power of close observation, showing how individual panels and single, well-chosen words can sum up a place's feeling. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Enchanting, digitally enhanced watercolors recreate the diffused light of an early morning on a lake and depict the quiet busyness of flora and fauna at this time of day. . . . The deceptive simplicity allows children to fill in the gaps by coming up with their own story. —Booklist
Marc Martin is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and author. He is the creator of many children’s books, including Masters of Disguise: Camouflaging Creatures and Magnificent Mimics; A Forest; and Everything and Everywhere. His books A River and We Are Starlings were both named best illustrated children’s books of the year by the New York Times. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
"The book is a testament to Martin’s immense artistic talents. Truly stunning." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
With gorgeous artwork and a spare text, an award-winning picture-book creator gently celebrates the natural world through the lens of a sunrise.
As the sun slowly rises, many things happen in a small window of time. The world comes alive with the actions of animals, plants, clouds, and sky. A deer drinks, an owl wakes, a dandelion shimmers in the light. A ladybug climbs, a fish jumps, birds call in a chorus. Geese fly away in formation. A flower blooms. Beautifully illustrated with glowing imagery and written with a charming simplicity holding appeal for new readers, Marc Martin’s ode to the slow-blooming beauty of a sunrise and the life that unfolds in its radiance narrows the lens to show the wonder of time passing.
Praise
The book is a testament to Martin’s immense artistic talents. Truly stunning. —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Martin (A Stone Is a Story) employs delicate, luminous watercolor, pencil, and digital panels, captioning them with simple words, to limn quiet moments of drama in the natural world. . . .A contemplative work that captures the power of close observation, showing how individual panels and single, well-chosen words can sum up a place's feeling. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Enchanting, digitally enhanced watercolors recreate the diffused light of an early morning on a lake and depict the quiet busyness of flora and fauna at this time of day. . . . The deceptive simplicity allows children to fill in the gaps by coming up with their own story. —Booklist
Author
Marc Martin is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and author. He is the creator of many children’s books, including Masters of Disguise: Camouflaging Creatures and Magnificent Mimics; A Forest; and Everything and Everywhere. His books A River and We Are Starlings were both named best illustrated children’s books of the year by the New York Times. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
