Quiet, Please

by Eve Merriam, Sheila Hamanaka (Illustrator)

Peaceful poetry accompanied by elegant paintings capture life's quiet moments and serene pleasures, such as a starfish spreading its arms or moonlight making a checkerboard on a brick wall.

1 pages, Library Binding

First published October 1, 1993

About the author

Born as Eve Moskovitz, American poet and writer

Reviews

[Cheryl]

I should have loved this. But I can't help get caught up w/ nitpicking. The deer that approach my mother's house crash through the underbrush, and the weaver I saw demonstrating her art made quite a loud Clackity-Click. Of course, compared to city life, even those sounds are relatively quiet. And quiet times important for young ears & minds.

So, if you do have young children with whom to share this, I definitely recommend you borrow it from your library. Those of us who read only to our inner child can skip it in favor of a session of meditation.

[Jennifer]

I had hoped to use this for a preschool story time with a letter Q theme, but there's no story to it. It's basically a list of things that could or should be quiet: "mushrooms sprouting in the rain", "buttermilk clouds scudding across the horizon,"emerald moss along the path in the woods," etc. etc. The pictures are gorgeous, though.

[Casandria]

This book begs to be whispered as you read it aloud.

[Marianne Blackstone Tabner]

Story of the naturally quiet things in nature. It's a very quiet book...it is sweet.

[Hira]

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