{"product_id":"what-if-one-day-by-bruce-handy-9781592703838","title":"What If One Day...","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat if one day, all the birds flew away?\u003c\/em\u003e Mornings would be quieter. Skies would be plainer. Worms could relax. \u003cem\u003eWhat if there were no more bugs? What if there ceased to be day and night?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 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 (\u003cem\u003eThe Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth\u003c\/em\u003e), accompanied by joyful art from Ashleigh Corrin (\u003cem\u003eLayla's Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e), invites readers to celebrate the beauty and wonder of existence, and all that makes our world what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book reminds us that all we need is here, if only we attend!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487760924908,"sku":"9781592703838","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/702e95f2651626ec10f648de07454901.jpg?v=1775769136","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/what-if-one-day-by-bruce-handy-9781592703838","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}