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What If One Day...

By Bruce Handy
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What If One Day... is a playful and thought-provoking picture book by Bruce Handy, illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin. It imagines how life would change if familiar elements of our world—birds, bugs, day and night—suddenly vanished. Through whimsical questions and joyful artwork, the book encourages readers to appreciate the beauty and wonder of the world as it is.
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This book is ideal for young readers exploring the natural world and for families seeking a meaningful, reflective story about appreciating everyday wonders. It suits children interested in imaginative storytelling and environmental themes.

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"What would the sky be like if there were no birds? What would mornings be like? And what if other things we take for granted, like night and color, disappeared, too?"--

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  • With its repetitive structure and ample sense of humor, this book is perfect for sharing and for classroom use.

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A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2023! An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! A Bookstagang Best of 2023 Winner: Best Illustration!

This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin explores the idea of how life would be if certain things we love most were no longer here.

What if one day, all the birds flew away? Mornings would be quieter. Skies would be plainer. Worms could relax. What if there were no more bugs? What if there ceased to be day and night?

By asking how our world would change if it lacked birds, water, or people, and how we would feel about that, this playful text from Bruce Handy (The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth), accompanied by joyful art from Ashleigh Corrin (Layla's Happiness), invites readers to celebrate the beauty and wonder of existence, and all that makes our world what it is.

So often, our gaze is on the future, on that better world to come, but what if the world as it is—with light and water, salt, earth, and animals, plants and insects, air and stars and French fries—is sufficient, and it is only us who have not known how to cherish it, or to love it all well enough?

This book reminds us that all we need is here, if only we attend!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781592703838

Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 November 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Enchanted Lion Books

Illustration: Full color throughout

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 268.0mm

Height: 272.0mm

Weight: 691g

Pages: 80

Collections

Bruce Handy Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational

About the Author

Bruce Handy is an author, journalist, essayist, critic, humorist, and editor. His first book for young readers, The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth, was named a Best Children’s Book of 2021 by the New York Times. Handy is also the author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult (Simon & Schuster). He has also worked as a writer-editor at Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, and Spy and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, New York, and the New Yorker, as well as other publications that don’t have New York in their titles, including The Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal. He currently lives in New York with his wife, the novelist Helen Schulman. Ashleigh Corrin is a graphic designer by day, illustrator by night, residing in Northern VA with her husband. Her picture book debut, Layla's Happiness, won the 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Award for illustration. Her talent comes from her late grandmother who has inspired Ashleigh to serve people's unique stories with creativity. With her illustrations, Ashleigh hopes to contribute to good laughs, nostalgia, vulnerability, transparency, and seeing the light in ourselves and others.

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