Matthew Paul Turner is a social and cultural commentator for today. The author of The Christian Culture Survival Guide and The Coffeehouse Gospel, he has also served as editor-in-chief for CCM, the nation's leading Christian entertainment magazine, and music and entertainment editor for Crosswalk.com, the world's largest Christian website. Matthew is also a frequent contributor to Relevant magazine. He and his wife, Jessica, live in Nashville, Tennessee. DAVID CATROW is an editorial cartoonist whose vibrant illustrations have appeared in more than seventy children's books, including several New York Times bestsellers, such as I Ain't Gonna Paint No More and I Like Myself. He makes his home in Ohio with his wife, Deborah.
ECPA bestseller The book opens with two young black girls with hair
in cornrows, a rambunctious mutt, and a playful cat engrossed in
creative indoor play. The rhyming text seems to draw the girls
outside as sunshine spills through their large window. "Dance in
the grass. / Go climbing in trees. / Build castles with sand. /
Face the wind; feel its breeze." Ebullient illustrations in
Catrow's signature style depict the two girls and their pets as
they frolic and explore in their own backyard and beyond, employing
chiaroscuro with often dramatic effect. Throughout, both pictures
and text revel in God's creation, light in particular and its
glowing presence in the sun, moon, and stars as well as within the
children themselves...A life-affirming exploration of the common
grace of creation and appreciation of the miraculous in every day.
-Kirkus Reviews "This is a joyful riot of colors and
enthusiastic children and pets playing and celebrating how amazing
and wondrous our universe is. Filled with fanciful and bold
illustrations, it makes me smile every time I read it. Your kids
will, too!"
-Doc Kirby, WTBF, Troy, AL
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