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New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2001.
Description
What is Love? For thousands of years, people the world over have answered this question by turning to Saint Paul the apostle and his words on love for the early followers of Christ. Now celebrated illustrator Wendy Anderson Halperin lends her own artistic vision to Paul's immortal words and reasserts his message -- that the love we express can best be seen in what we do and say -- for generations to come.
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LibraryThing member kshielee
Love is... uses I Corinthians to tell the reader what love is about. The way the book is written it is a form of poetry. The illustrations in the book help the reader discern what the different qualities of love look like, such as bearing all things. The pictures help to show a poor example and
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then compare it with a good example of love. The few words throughout the book make the illustrations even more powerful and help the reader better understand what love is. Show Less
LibraryThing member LMWhoRight
This book illustrates St. Paul's biblical passage about love from 1st Corinthians (1 Cor 13:4-8) Each double page spread contains a line of text at the bottom, with the rest of the space dedicated to detailed drawings. Every inch is filled with colour and patterns.
Many pictures come in
This is a beautiful picture book, and you can tell a lot of thought went into its planning. It is full of illustrated examples to discuss with a child to help understand St. Paul's words in a concrete way.
This title is appropriate for anytime, but I especially recommend it for Quinquagesima Sunday (the one before Ash Wednesday) because the epistle for that Mass is 1 Cor 13 in the Tridentine calendar.
Many pictures come in
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mirror-image pairs with the left side showing a negative example and the right side showing a positive example. There are also long strips of images that tell stories showing the passage of time. I recognized examples from everyday life, nature, fairy tales, and children's stories. In the bottom left and bottom right corners of each page is a picture; one shows a process of destruction, and the other, a process of creation over time as you progress through the book. This is a beautiful picture book, and you can tell a lot of thought went into its planning. It is full of illustrated examples to discuss with a child to help understand St. Paul's words in a concrete way.
This title is appropriate for anytime, but I especially recommend it for Quinquagesima Sunday (the one before Ash Wednesday) because the epistle for that Mass is 1 Cor 13 in the Tridentine calendar.
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Awards
Triple Crown Awards (Nominee — 2004)
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31 cm
ISBN
0689829809 / 9780689829802