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For all creatures
For all creatures - the great and the small, the winged and the walking, the singing and the silent - we are thankful.
This second collaboration by the award-winning team of Glenda Millard and Rebecca Cool is a celebration of the beauty and mystery of life in its many forms.
This second collaboration by the award-winning team of Glenda Millard and Rebecca Cool is a celebration of the beauty and mystery of life in its many forms.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
32 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2011
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About the author
Glenda Millard
36 books96 followersGlenda Millard was born in the Goldfields region of Central Victoria and has lived in the area all her life. The communities she has lived in and the surrounding landscapes have provided a rich source of inspiration and settings for many of her stories.
It was not until Glenda's four children became teenagers that she began to write in her spare time. She is now a full-time writer.
Apart from writing, some of Glenda's favorite things are Jack Russell Terriers, hot-air ballooning, making and eating bread and pizza in the wood-fired oven that her husband built in the back yard, and reading books which either make her laugh or cry.
Glenda has published six picture books, three junior fiction titles, short stories and two young adult titles. 'The Naming of Tishkin Silk' was shortlisted in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards and for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
It was not until Glenda's four children became teenagers that she began to write in her spare time. She is now a full-time writer.
Apart from writing, some of Glenda's favorite things are Jack Russell Terriers, hot-air ballooning, making and eating bread and pizza in the wood-fired oven that her husband built in the back yard, and reading books which either make her laugh or cry.
Glenda has published six picture books, three junior fiction titles, short stories and two young adult titles. 'The Naming of Tishkin Silk' was shortlisted in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards and for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
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February 28, 2013
A beautiful, poetic hymn to creation with striking illustrations that are bold and bright in some parts while richly patterned in others. The non-rhyming but rhythmic verses throw together the diverse qualities of the animals around us. Like nature itself, the qualities sometimes seem contrary, and yet still the song is thankful, recognising perhaps that we can love even what seems imperfect.
The phrases are as magical as the pictures, communicating not just what the animals look like, but their way of moving, and an often-humorous interpretation of the 'attitude' implied by their way of acting:
For dawdlers and dampness.
For spirals, shells and slowness,
smallness and shyness
and for scribbled silver secrets, we are thankful.
The double page devoted to humans is delightful:
For the unborn and unseen.
For wish and wonder and wait,
bellies and bumps
and for newness, we are thankful.
For hands and holding.
For laps and love and lullabies,
time and tenderness
and for oldness, we are thankful.
The more times I read it, the more I like it. Just added another star. Reviewed for www.GoodReadingGuide.com
The phrases are as magical as the pictures, communicating not just what the animals look like, but their way of moving, and an often-humorous interpretation of the 'attitude' implied by their way of acting:
For dawdlers and dampness.
For spirals, shells and slowness,
smallness and shyness
and for scribbled silver secrets, we are thankful.
The double page devoted to humans is delightful:
For the unborn and unseen.
For wish and wonder and wait,
bellies and bumps
and for newness, we are thankful.
For hands and holding.
For laps and love and lullabies,
time and tenderness
and for oldness, we are thankful.
The more times I read it, the more I like it. Just added another star. Reviewed for www.GoodReadingGuide.com
June 7, 2021
Absolute perfection!
November 17, 2015
Yes, we are thankful!
It seems an odd mix: poetry that's like a vague cross between the verse of the fourteenth century Alliterative Revival and Gerard Manley Hopkins' unusual word-couplings, verse that faintly echoes liturgical hymns but stops short of committing itself to anything definite in the faith line, rich dense colour in glowing illustrations.
A celebration of life on this planet.
A truly vibrant book.
It seems an odd mix: poetry that's like a vague cross between the verse of the fourteenth century Alliterative Revival and Gerard Manley Hopkins' unusual word-couplings, verse that faintly echoes liturgical hymns but stops short of committing itself to anything definite in the faith line, rich dense colour in glowing illustrations.
A celebration of life on this planet.
A truly vibrant book.
August 15, 2012
amazing illustrations
November 15, 2012
The illustrations were awesome, the text short and calmingly repetitive. Good for an end-of-day lap-sit, not a storytime.
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