What We'll Build: Plans For Our Together Future

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From acclaimed author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers comes the companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Here We Are!

What shall we build, you and I? We'll build a watch to keep our time. I'll build your future and you'll build mine.

Inspired by the birth of his daughter, and in the same vein as Here We AreWhat We'll Build is a rhythmic and heartwarming father and daughter story from the beloved Oliver Jeffers. Told in rhyming text with Oliver's signature art, What We'll Build is the perfect story to cherish together.---from the publisher

48 pages                                          978-0593206751                               Ages 4-8

Keywords:  family, father/daughter, growing up, finding yourself, identity, rhyme, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, values

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What shall we build, you and I?

I'll build your future and you'll build mine.

We'll build a watch to keep our time.

Sitting perfectly alongside its predecessor Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth in which Jeffers tries to offer an explanation of this planet and how it works so that his young son Harland  (and any other little children) will be able to negotiate it successfully; this time Jeffers is talking to his daughter Mari about how they will build their future together with a home to keep them safe, love to keep them warm and memories to cherish. Thus it is as much about satisfying the tangible, physical needs as the intangible, emotional that are perhaps even more critical.

Given the year that just was, this is the perfect start to a new year - one which has never been more anticipated and had more hope built into it by our young students - so that they can look forward rather than back and think about their dreams and how they might build these, while for the adult sharing the book it is a time for them to pause, look at their children and grasp that there, is one of their dreams come true - a happy, healthy child. And the future for each is inextricably intertwined.

Jeffers has a unique style of both text and illustration which is perfectly suited to this sort of philosophical text; one that might be directed to his daughter but which has universal application for starting this new year.  If 2021 is to live up to expectation what do we need to do to ensure that it does?

Recommended by:  Barbara Braxton, Teacher Librarian, New South Wales AUSTRALIA

Hear Oliver Jeffers read:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSW4x5z2kDE

Oliver Jeffers reads on Instagram:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkHDn5pG7-s

See more of her recommendations:

500 Hats https://500hats.edublogs.org/

The Bottom Shelf https://thebottomshelf.edublogs.org/

Storybook Cushions https:// bit.ly/storybook_cushions

 

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