Shimmering poetry and stunning cut-paper art portray epic concepts—the evolving biography of the universe and the symbiotic relationship between science and story.
Since the beginning, humans have created stories about the universe. From early mythology to modern-day science is a long journey, yet 95 percent of the world “out there” remains a mystery. What will we believe tomorrow? Marion Dane Bauer’s glowing poetry combines with Hari & Deepti’s intricate cut-paper illustrations, dazzling with light and shadow, to celebrate an active, vital, changing, and growing universe. They also show how we humans—the curious ones, the storytellers—are active, vital, changing, and growing, too. In a comprehensive afterword, the author tracks formative contributions to the study of the universe by Western and non-Western civilizations over the centuries.---from the publisher
40 pages 978-1536218596 Ages 6-9
Keywords: world history, the power of story, beliefs, poetry, hope, inspiration, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, 9 year old
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"We love our stories. We live our stories."
From the beginning of human life on Earth we created stories to help us understand the world we live in. We have found beliefs that reassure us that we matter. If we look back over hundreds of years of our human history, we can follow the path of ideas as they begin to be heard, spread to new believers, get challenged by some and then transform and move forward to a new idea and a new understanding.
What do we believe now? How will our idea, our understanding be challenged? Will it transform into a new belief we can't even imagine now? What will you discover in your one, wild, beautiful life?
A book that inspires, a book that gives children the great big perspective of how human beings have evolved in their thinking and in their beliefs and a book that offers great hope.
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
