Simple Thanks

Deborah Wiles, Bao Luu

Book cover for Simple Thanks
Book cover for Simple Thanks

Simple Thanks

Simple Thanks

Deborah Wiles, Bao Luu

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Description

From award-winning author Deborah Wiles and illustrator Bao Luu comes an exuberant and heartwarming picture book tribute to the things that connect us all--nature, love, and gratitude.

I hear the song that nature sings
that links each heart to mine.
The ocean blue, the sky above
the forest with its pine.

For a young brother and sister, every day spent in nature is an adventure, and every natural marvel they encounter is a gift. Together, they run through fields of tall grass and say thank you for the rain; they greet fish in babbling brooks and say thank you for the clear blue waters. At the end of each adventure, they say thank you for the new friends they collected along the way.

When given a chance to do more than say thank you, the siblings gather their tools--their friends, their shovels, and their watering cans--and plant the seeds of gratitude.

About the Author

Deborah Wiles is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the beloved Love, Ruby Lavender and two National Book Award finalists-Each Little Bird that Sings and Revolution. her first picture book, Freedom Summer, received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. she is also an NAACP Book Award finalist, E.B. White Award winner, Golden Kite Award winner, Jane Addams Peace Award finalist, and recipient of a PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bao Luu dreamed of becoming an artist as a child, and today his work as an illustrator focuses on bright, playful colors and unique textures. He is the illustrator of Simple Thanks written by Deborah Wiles and The Seed of Compassion written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Bao Luu was born and raised in Vietnam and currently lives near Houston, Texas.

Publishing Information

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Pub date: 2024-04-09
Length: 32 pages

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