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Outside In
Outside is waiting, the most patient playmate of all. The most generous friend. The most miraculous inventor. Our connection with nature is not so easily obscured by lives spent indoors.
40 pages, Hardcover
First published April 14, 2020
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May 11, 2022
WOW!!! How I love this artwork. This artwork was amazing and it made me feel so much. It was powerful and was intimately intertwined with the story. This was so brilliant. I feel this should have actually won the Caldecott and not only been a nomination.
This had power. I spent 4 years studying acupuncture and medicine and the core of our medicine is that we are part of nature. The more we divert from nature and separate ourselves, the more our health suffers. The starts out showing our separation from nature and then it begins showing all the ways that nature is still there and calling to us.
This book hit all my feels. I want to own this stunning book. The artwork is watercolors and its almost an abstract feeling of nature all over the place that is stunning. I would love to have frames of some of this artwork. I just love it. This book stunned me and I simply want more of it. What it did was amazing and shows how we need nature. I can't say enough.
This had power. I spent 4 years studying acupuncture and medicine and the core of our medicine is that we are part of nature. The more we divert from nature and separate ourselves, the more our health suffers. The starts out showing our separation from nature and then it begins showing all the ways that nature is still there and calling to us.
This book hit all my feels. I want to own this stunning book. The artwork is watercolors and its almost an abstract feeling of nature all over the place that is stunning. I would love to have frames of some of this artwork. I just love it. This book stunned me and I simply want more of it. What it did was amazing and shows how we need nature. I can't say enough.
March 26, 2020
Under normal circumstances I like the reviews I write to be timeless. To the best of my ability I do not root them in a specific time or place, so that when they are discovered ten, twenty, thirty years down the road they’ll be as pertinent as ever. But as I write this I am living through a historical event. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the United States and so I am sheltering in my house like the rest of my country. On occasion I can go out and find places in nature to visit, but for the most part I am social distancing within my home. What better time then to tackle a picture book with a title like Outside In? Let it be known that in this book you will find winsome writing and evocative art, but you will not find a harangue. Nor a preach. Nor a didactic jolt to the senses. This book is not faulting you. It is simply showing how, for all that we wall ourselves up in our homes and cars, we can never truly block out the outside. It finds its way in to us. And right now, in the Spring, when the world seems scary, this may be the comforting book about what’s beyond our back doors that we all need right now.
It wasn’t always the way it is now. “Once we were part of Outside and Outside was part of us. There was nothing between us.” No longer. How often are we actually outside at all? Not when we ride in our cars or go into our homes. But you cannot deny that the outside is always around for us, gently reminding us that it’s there. You might forget it, but it’s in “clothes, once puffs of cotton,” and “in the warm weight of our cats and the rough fur of our dogs.” The Outside sometimes sneaks in (a bug in the bathroom) or enters boldly, like river in our sinks, “eager to return to the sea.” And so it stays and so it waits and eventually we come back to it.
It is safe to say that Deborah Underwood has had one of the more eclectic series of books out there. It is impossible to look at any title and say to yourself, “Classic Underwood” because she’s always launching herself in an entirely new direction. Personally, the two books of hers that I’ve always liked best are The Quiet Book and Bad Bye, Good Bye. In both cases you get this succinctness of language packed with a heavy undercurrent of unspoken meaning. Yet for all that she’s been lyrical for years, Outside In feels different. It’s as if she’s given up all pretense and opened herself up wholly to poetry. “Outside feeds us. Sun, rain, and seeds become warm bread and berries.” Or, later, “Outside steals inside: a spider seeking shelter, a boxelder bug in the bath, a tiny snail on kale" (and extra points for calling out those sneaky boxelder bugs). I think what I like best, though, is the clarity of the storytelling. Though this book has layers of meaning, a kid will understand instantly what the author is trying to say. The outside wants to play with you. Best that you meet it halfway.
On occasion, it can feel like an author is testing their artist. I’m not saying that they do this on purpose. But somewhere in a back corner of Deborah Underwood’s brain, in a hidden crevice so deep that no one would even know it was there, surely there must have been some part of her that thought, “What would my illustrator do if I wrote something like “Outside beckons with smells: sunbaked, fresh, and mysterious.” Enter Cindy Derby. Personally, I like to follow Cindy Derby’s career. It’s like watching the petals of a flower unfurl. There’s something to her style that grows and changes and learns and invents more and more with each book that she does. Most folks probably know her best for her debut How to Walk an Ant though my heart and soul will always belong to the art she created for Climbing Shadows: Poems for Children. Outside In is very much in the Climbing Shadows vein, if with a bit more narrative drive.
I once compared the art of Derby to that of Stephen Gammell, and for sheer watercolor splatter I don’t think I was wrong to do so. But let’s step back a bit and look at precisely what it is that Derby accomplishes with this book. Observe what she’s doing with light. How a walk in the woods after a rain when the sky is light but gray looks a certain way. Or how shadows flicker through sunny windows and cause the legs of chairs to resemble their former tree-like selves. The outside featured in this book feels damp and wet but strangely manageable. Even as Derby swoops the reader from high above the earth below, she always returns to the little things, much as Underwood’s text does too. Underwood can talk about the snail on the kale, but it’s Derby who gives that snail importance. It observes the girl going into her house, it waits when she exits, and the last image of this book is of the girl holding it, gently, on the tip of her finger.
This book isn’t interested in taking a deep dive into man vs. nature or any of that claptrap. The Outside here isn’t going to scare you with thunderstorms or wild animals. This Outside is the one that fills a small child’s heart with wonder if and when they get to experience it on their own, alone. “I’m here, Outside says. I miss you.” We miss you too, baby. And one of these days we’ll be together again. Until that happy time arrives, though, we’ll have this beautiful book to stand by our side. Inside, in our arms, where it belongs.
For ages 4-7.
It wasn’t always the way it is now. “Once we were part of Outside and Outside was part of us. There was nothing between us.” No longer. How often are we actually outside at all? Not when we ride in our cars or go into our homes. But you cannot deny that the outside is always around for us, gently reminding us that it’s there. You might forget it, but it’s in “clothes, once puffs of cotton,” and “in the warm weight of our cats and the rough fur of our dogs.” The Outside sometimes sneaks in (a bug in the bathroom) or enters boldly, like river in our sinks, “eager to return to the sea.” And so it stays and so it waits and eventually we come back to it.
It is safe to say that Deborah Underwood has had one of the more eclectic series of books out there. It is impossible to look at any title and say to yourself, “Classic Underwood” because she’s always launching herself in an entirely new direction. Personally, the two books of hers that I’ve always liked best are The Quiet Book and Bad Bye, Good Bye. In both cases you get this succinctness of language packed with a heavy undercurrent of unspoken meaning. Yet for all that she’s been lyrical for years, Outside In feels different. It’s as if she’s given up all pretense and opened herself up wholly to poetry. “Outside feeds us. Sun, rain, and seeds become warm bread and berries.” Or, later, “Outside steals inside: a spider seeking shelter, a boxelder bug in the bath, a tiny snail on kale" (and extra points for calling out those sneaky boxelder bugs). I think what I like best, though, is the clarity of the storytelling. Though this book has layers of meaning, a kid will understand instantly what the author is trying to say. The outside wants to play with you. Best that you meet it halfway.
On occasion, it can feel like an author is testing their artist. I’m not saying that they do this on purpose. But somewhere in a back corner of Deborah Underwood’s brain, in a hidden crevice so deep that no one would even know it was there, surely there must have been some part of her that thought, “What would my illustrator do if I wrote something like “Outside beckons with smells: sunbaked, fresh, and mysterious.” Enter Cindy Derby. Personally, I like to follow Cindy Derby’s career. It’s like watching the petals of a flower unfurl. There’s something to her style that grows and changes and learns and invents more and more with each book that she does. Most folks probably know her best for her debut How to Walk an Ant though my heart and soul will always belong to the art she created for Climbing Shadows: Poems for Children. Outside In is very much in the Climbing Shadows vein, if with a bit more narrative drive.
I once compared the art of Derby to that of Stephen Gammell, and for sheer watercolor splatter I don’t think I was wrong to do so. But let’s step back a bit and look at precisely what it is that Derby accomplishes with this book. Observe what she’s doing with light. How a walk in the woods after a rain when the sky is light but gray looks a certain way. Or how shadows flicker through sunny windows and cause the legs of chairs to resemble their former tree-like selves. The outside featured in this book feels damp and wet but strangely manageable. Even as Derby swoops the reader from high above the earth below, she always returns to the little things, much as Underwood’s text does too. Underwood can talk about the snail on the kale, but it’s Derby who gives that snail importance. It observes the girl going into her house, it waits when she exits, and the last image of this book is of the girl holding it, gently, on the tip of her finger.
This book isn’t interested in taking a deep dive into man vs. nature or any of that claptrap. The Outside here isn’t going to scare you with thunderstorms or wild animals. This Outside is the one that fills a small child’s heart with wonder if and when they get to experience it on their own, alone. “I’m here, Outside says. I miss you.” We miss you too, baby. And one of these days we’ll be together again. Until that happy time arrives, though, we’ll have this beautiful book to stand by our side. Inside, in our arms, where it belongs.
For ages 4-7.
February 8, 2021
As the simple but poetic narrative speaks of the beauty and lure of the outside, which waits for us, tempting us to return to it, the lovely artwork in Outside In captures all of the tricks outside plays, in order to capture our attention. The light and shadows coming in our windows, the scents and sights, everything trying to get us to return, and eventually, we do...
On my first read of Outside In, I found myself concentrating on the artwork of illustrator Cindy Derby, which is perhaps not surprising, considering that this title was one of four Caldecott Honor books chosen this year (2021), along with Zetta Elliott and Noa Denmon's A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart , Cozbi A. Cabrera's Me & Mama , and Irene Latham, Karim Shamsi-Basha and Yuko Shimizu's The Cat Man of Aleppo . These illustrations, created using watercolor and powdered graphite, with some lines being made using flower stems and thread soaked in ink, are beautiful, with a lovely color palette, and an expressive, sometimes chaotic composition, one which suggests a world always in motion. I enjoyed these images, and I appreciated the ideas in Deborah Underwood's text, but it was only on my second read that I really appreciated the deeper meaning here. The narrative begins: "Once we were part of Outside, and Outside was part of us. There was nothing between us." It goes on to describe all the ways we have found to separate ourselves from Outside, from nature, and all the ways in which Outside calls to us, to renew our connection. This is not just a call to spend more time outdoors, it is a call to return to an earlier state of being, as humans, a state of being in which we too were part of nature, rather than standing outside of it, and visiting it upon occasion. How superbly ironic that Outside In was published in April of 2020, as the whole world was hunkering down inside. Although this serendipitous timing could not have been planned, it does make the book all the more powerful, the more one ponders it! Recommended to picture-book readers looking for subtler, more philosophical tales, ones which celebrate our connection to the natural world around us.
On my first read of Outside In, I found myself concentrating on the artwork of illustrator Cindy Derby, which is perhaps not surprising, considering that this title was one of four Caldecott Honor books chosen this year (2021), along with Zetta Elliott and Noa Denmon's A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart , Cozbi A. Cabrera's Me & Mama , and Irene Latham, Karim Shamsi-Basha and Yuko Shimizu's The Cat Man of Aleppo . These illustrations, created using watercolor and powdered graphite, with some lines being made using flower stems and thread soaked in ink, are beautiful, with a lovely color palette, and an expressive, sometimes chaotic composition, one which suggests a world always in motion. I enjoyed these images, and I appreciated the ideas in Deborah Underwood's text, but it was only on my second read that I really appreciated the deeper meaning here. The narrative begins: "Once we were part of Outside, and Outside was part of us. There was nothing between us." It goes on to describe all the ways we have found to separate ourselves from Outside, from nature, and all the ways in which Outside calls to us, to renew our connection. This is not just a call to spend more time outdoors, it is a call to return to an earlier state of being, as humans, a state of being in which we too were part of nature, rather than standing outside of it, and visiting it upon occasion. How superbly ironic that Outside In was published in April of 2020, as the whole world was hunkering down inside. Although this serendipitous timing could not have been planned, it does make the book all the more powerful, the more one ponders it! Recommended to picture-book readers looking for subtler, more philosophical tales, ones which celebrate our connection to the natural world around us.
August 19, 2020
2.5 stars
The softly colored illustrations are beautiful abstract views of the outside.
I like the concept Underwood shared but the story was a miss for me. The book feels more like one for adults to reflect on and reconnect with nature. Not a bad thing but not what I was hoping for for elementary level.
The softly colored illustrations are beautiful abstract views of the outside.
I like the concept Underwood shared but the story was a miss for me. The book feels more like one for adults to reflect on and reconnect with nature. Not a bad thing but not what I was hoping for for elementary level.
December 24, 2021
Featured in a grandma reads session.
Beautiful, full and wispy watercolors underscore a series of statements about humanity existing in the "outside". . . .and our obsessive work at finding, creating and residing "inside," the main point being our loss of the glorious outside. The artwork embraces that goal, with, as it's arrow point, an appealing child, usually observed or followed by an interested outside creature.
Simple and arty, this book appealed to my group. They noticed that the child wears red mostly - and we discussed why the artist would make that choice, given a palette full of choices. I loved the reasons: it was the artist's favorite, it was their favorite, attempt to represent all colors on a page, and that it was the loudest color and would draw a viewer's attention to the girl. . . a conversation that had my artist mother (from wherever she's passed on to) beaming.
Beautiful, full and wispy watercolors underscore a series of statements about humanity existing in the "outside". . . .and our obsessive work at finding, creating and residing "inside," the main point being our loss of the glorious outside. The artwork embraces that goal, with, as it's arrow point, an appealing child, usually observed or followed by an interested outside creature.
Simple and arty, this book appealed to my group. They noticed that the child wears red mostly - and we discussed why the artist would make that choice, given a palette full of choices. I loved the reasons: it was the artist's favorite, it was their favorite, attempt to represent all colors on a page, and that it was the loudest color and would draw a viewer's attention to the girl. . . a conversation that had my artist mother (from wherever she's passed on to) beaming.
December 11, 2020
Gorgeous art in this ode to the outdoors. It's a pretty simple story, but effective, and it is nice to get the reminder, especially now, of the beautiful world that surrounds us.
March 28, 2021
Outside In is a picturebook that reminds us that we are a part of nature and beckons us to come outside. The meditation on the separation and connection between humans and nature is lyrical, gentle, sweet but also kind of... depressing?
Cindy Derby's art style is not my personal favorite but I do like the way she uses colors to convey emotions :)
Cindy Derby's art style is not my personal favorite but I do like the way she uses colors to convey emotions :)
March 8, 2021
A gentle nudge to readers, encouraging connection with nature. Three cheers for words and message! Slightly disenchanted by the illustrations.
I borrowed this book from our library because it won a 2021 Caldecott Honor.
My own kids have grown past the years of reading picture books, but I still read them for their magic and inspiration, and because I like to stay current on what the children of our world are being offered and taught. Call it research if you will. Perhaps I'll create a picture book of my own one day.
It's funny how I can spend as much time studying the meaning and deciphering clues in an illustrated picture book of less than 200 words as I might a book of more than 200 pages.
The Caldecott recognizes the preceding year's most distinguished American picture book for children, an award to the illustrator, so it came as a surprise to me that I loved the words in this book, but wasn't as smitten with the illustrations.
The message is wonderful, reminding the audience of our connection to nature. "Once we were part of Outside and Outside was part of us. " In a gentle way, it nudges readers Outside, and to be aware of all the ways Outside is present even when we are inside. It encourages observation, using our senses, and gratitude. Perfectly spare and fantastic.
The cover art drew me in, but there isn't another illustration comparable to it until the very end, a colorful burst of beautiful forest. Between, the illustrations often felt dull and gloomy (with the exception of the monarchs, which perked me up).
Maybe in the understated images, the illustrator is saying Nature can only be experienced to its fullest vibrancy and clarity if we get out there. If, in fact, this is the purpose, it helps me understand the approach. But Nature, to me, is much more dazzling than I found most of the illustrations and, as I've often been reminded lately in reading, Nature doesn't need humans in order for it to shine. That's another topic. Humans do need nature, and so I love the message: Get Outside. Appreciate all that Nature gives us.
I borrowed this book from our library because it won a 2021 Caldecott Honor.
My own kids have grown past the years of reading picture books, but I still read them for their magic and inspiration, and because I like to stay current on what the children of our world are being offered and taught. Call it research if you will. Perhaps I'll create a picture book of my own one day.
It's funny how I can spend as much time studying the meaning and deciphering clues in an illustrated picture book of less than 200 words as I might a book of more than 200 pages.
The Caldecott recognizes the preceding year's most distinguished American picture book for children, an award to the illustrator, so it came as a surprise to me that I loved the words in this book, but wasn't as smitten with the illustrations.
The message is wonderful, reminding the audience of our connection to nature. "Once we were part of Outside and Outside was part of us. " In a gentle way, it nudges readers Outside, and to be aware of all the ways Outside is present even when we are inside. It encourages observation, using our senses, and gratitude. Perfectly spare and fantastic.
The cover art drew me in, but there isn't another illustration comparable to it until the very end, a colorful burst of beautiful forest. Between, the illustrations often felt dull and gloomy (with the exception of the monarchs, which perked me up).
Maybe in the understated images, the illustrator is saying Nature can only be experienced to its fullest vibrancy and clarity if we get out there. If, in fact, this is the purpose, it helps me understand the approach. But Nature, to me, is much more dazzling than I found most of the illustrations and, as I've often been reminded lately in reading, Nature doesn't need humans in order for it to shine. That's another topic. Humans do need nature, and so I love the message: Get Outside. Appreciate all that Nature gives us.
January 10, 2022
What a beautiful picturebook. I have read a lot of stories now that touch upon nature-deficit disorder and the loss children suffer when separated from the natural world and its denizens but this is beautifully done and still brings a sense of freshness to the telling through both Underwood's slim narrative and Derby's gorgeous washes of colour and use of perspective.
Told over the shoulder of a young girl (although perspective can shift with the outside looking in at times), this is an ode to what we have lost in staying indoors or journeying by car. It is the language of the outdoors that Underwood champions here 'sunbaked smells' tempt us as does it 'chirps' and 'rustles' too. The colours and sounds of the outside are always there waiting and often find ways of creeping into our homes too.
This is a gentle invitation to remember to step outside whilst standing a distance away from any saccharine literature that can romanticise the natural world.
Told over the shoulder of a young girl (although perspective can shift with the outside looking in at times), this is an ode to what we have lost in staying indoors or journeying by car. It is the language of the outdoors that Underwood champions here 'sunbaked smells' tempt us as does it 'chirps' and 'rustles' too. The colours and sounds of the outside are always there waiting and often find ways of creeping into our homes too.
This is a gentle invitation to remember to step outside whilst standing a distance away from any saccharine literature that can romanticise the natural world.
July 19, 2020
A stunning and timely picture book by the remarkable Deborah Underwood. Underwood through her words and Cindy Derby through her luminous illustrations have created a picture book that is happy and comforting. This may be the most perfect go to read aloud in these surreal, difficult times. Highly recommend.
July 20, 2020
This book UNDERSTANDS. Humans and nature are one, meant to be together, separated by technology. But even when we don't think to reach for nature, nature reaches for us. The inching-toward-the-abstract art, which I would not have said would work with a book with this theme, is actually perfect.
August 18, 2020
At a time when our collective relationship to the indoors and outdoors feels particularly fraught, this book was an exquisite reminder of all the ways in which we are connected to - and take for granted - the great "outside."
February 23, 2021
I wanted patiently for a library copy (Caldecott Medal). The illustrations are gorgeous and I love the message of the book. I think it spoke more to me as an adult and as a person who is longing for spring!
June 26, 2020
Outside.
It calls to us.
It tempts us with dazzling displays of color and scent.
It reminds us of delight it offers.
Let's go. Outside.
It calls to us.
It tempts us with dazzling displays of color and scent.
It reminds us of delight it offers.
Let's go. Outside.
December 4, 2020
I loved this concept and the art was magnificent!
December 5, 2020
Good lord, this is so beautiful with so much reverence for nature and our connection to it. All the stars to this one!
February 4, 2021
Beautiful words and lovely artwork!! ❤️
December 11, 2020
At a time when so many of us have been staying inside our homes, Deborah Underwood’s beautiful “Outside In” reminds us that we are all a part of the great outside, of Nature. With sparse, poetic language and beautiful illustrations by Cindy Derby this lovely book reminds us of our connections with Nature and how even inside our homes the outside world will find us. Whether its sunlight and moonlight streaming through our windows, birds heard singing in the trees or tapping on our roofs, insects we encounter that are seeking shelter, or the food and water we eat and drink, our lives are part of something greater. This is the perfect read for any child (or adult) who is feeling like a shut-in.
September 24, 2021
Outside in by Deborah Underwood, never rang so true as it does during this pandemic. At the start of this the world became almost still...and Nature was once more center stage.
Before Covid, "we forgot Outside is there." It was during the initial quiet that "Outside reminds us" ... through light, shadows and other sounds. :...Sings to us with chirps and rustles and tap-taps on the roof" .
Outside waits....
A beautiful book that showcases how nature affects us all in so many ways that we are often unaware of.
Promotes Mediation; Reflection; Connection; Wonder
Highly Recommended .. a great book for discussions at any age level!
Happy to now have copies in all my school libraries!
FIVE STARS !!!
Before Covid, "we forgot Outside is there." It was during the initial quiet that "Outside reminds us" ... through light, shadows and other sounds. :...Sings to us with chirps and rustles and tap-taps on the roof" .
Outside waits....
A beautiful book that showcases how nature affects us all in so many ways that we are often unaware of.
Promotes Mediation; Reflection; Connection; Wonder
Highly Recommended .. a great book for discussions at any age level!
Happy to now have copies in all my school libraries!
FIVE STARS !!!
November 25, 2020
Wow, such a fantastic book! The story shows how even when we are outside, often we are not. It shows the lack of connection humans have to nature and when they do it is usually through man-made items such as chairs that used to be trees. The illustrations are fantastic at showing the emotions of the girl, using colour and shadows. The book seems even more relevant at the moment when many children are experiencing repeated lockdowns and being stuck inside. The deepness of the book allows itself to be used in most year groups of primary school, I'd use it from year 1 - year 6. There are endless cross-curricular links to science and PSHE as well as other areas of the curriculum.
February 19, 2021
I certainly understand why this was a Caldecott Honor Book! The story and the gorgeous, inventive illustrations could stand on their own, but together.... this truly meets the Caldecott criteria! I could see using it with students and then having them survey their surroundings to look for things that originated outside. After I read it, I looked around the room to think about it myself. The illustrations inspired me to look carefully and examine which aspects were probably watercolor, powder, or organic matter. I am currently looking to see if there are any videos showing Cindy Derby's process.
December 29, 2021
This lovely, beautifully illustrated picture book invites the reader to remember how fascinating and intriguing the world of nature is, especially when we are stuck indoors for any length of time. The author also points out how many of the things we appreciate having in our inside world are products from the Outside (clothing, furniture, food). If I read this to my grandchildren, I would invite them to look closely at Cindy Derby’s lush illustrations to find all the subtle, hidden creatures that we might look past. If I was reading this book to a class, I might ask them to join me in making a list of all the things in our lives that were outside and are now inside.
May 23, 2021
4/4/2021 ~ We need Outside - an opportunity to step away from electronics and the noises of modern life. Pay attention when Outside snags your attention. This book is timeless and definitely for all ages.
My favorite illustration styles often don't include water colors, but this book showed me how much an expert water colorist can convey. Absolutely stunning, and I thank the Caldecott committee for bringing this stunning book to my attention.
Why I wanted to read this book:
http://www.ala.org/news/press-release...
My favorite illustration styles often don't include water colors, but this book showed me how much an expert water colorist can convey. Absolutely stunning, and I thank the Caldecott committee for bringing this stunning book to my attention.
Why I wanted to read this book:
http://www.ala.org/news/press-release...
April 23, 2021
Gorgeous illustrations. Simple, gentle, oh-so-appropriate text. This would make a perfect read before bedtime for small children. The home I built in far northern Minnesota had two walls of windows...to bring the outside in, even in the dead of winter. This book reminds me of how much I miss that former home.
February 25, 2021
The artwork is beautiful and the sentiment is [chef’s kiss], but this wistful picture book is definitely speaking to an adult rather than a child. It was a lovely moment of zen for this nature-loving aunt.
August 27, 2021
I want to live in the last page of this book.
Gorgeous and soft. A deep breathing in and breathing out. A celebration of the vastness of the outside and the coziness of the inside. Deborah Underwood always makes me want to pause and celebrate the smallest, sometimes invisible details of life.
Gorgeous and soft. A deep breathing in and breathing out. A celebration of the vastness of the outside and the coziness of the inside. Deborah Underwood always makes me want to pause and celebrate the smallest, sometimes invisible details of life.
August 27, 2020
The artwork in this picture book is incredibly gorgeous. It feels like a poem, an ode to the great outdoors and all the benefits of nature, even if, oftentimes, we now live indoors.
September 14, 2020
A beautiful look at how, even when we are always inside, the outside finds us and filters itself into our lives in many ways.
Unique but lovely illustrations.
Unique but lovely illustrations.
November 22, 2020
The illustrations! Gorgeous! One of the positives about the pandemic is the renewed appreciation of nature and the outside. This book captures that!
January 20, 2021
Delightful illustrations and sweet, thoughtful text combine in this gentle book about the lure of outside and the many wonderful things we can see when we leave the house.
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