Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Seattle, WA : Compendium, [2016]
Description
The stars belong in the deep night sky, and the moon belongs there too, and the winds belong in each place they blow by, and I belong here with you. So begins this classic bedtime book, richly illustrated by award-winning artist Isabelle Arsenault. The pages journey around the world, observing plants and animals, everywhere, and reminding children that they are right where they belong. A beautiful title for new babies, adoptive families, and children of all ages.-- amazon.com
User reviews
LibraryThing member melodyreads
sweet and loving; animals and where they belong, and child belongs here with parent - wonderful soft rhyme and equally appealing illustrations
LibraryThing member JanesList
A book that somehow just ends up creepy. Each animal is where they are supposed to be, and then "you'll always belong right next to me and I'll belong next to you". I understand the goal of the book but it just rings oddly.
LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
A lovely poetic celebration of the idea of belonging - each being and thing having a place where it belongs - and interconnectedness - everything belonging together with something else, in a particular relationship of place or love, or both - You Belong Here is a gorgeous picture-book, one that
Poet M.H. Clark delivers a powerful work here, one that reads well aloud, and will linger long after in the mind, with beautiful word-images and thoughtful juxtapositions of creature and place. Isabelle Arsenault, who also illustrated Jane, the Fox, and Me and Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois, delivers equally lovely visual images, utilizing a subtle sepia-toned palette, with the occasional colorful accent, to create a world both mysterious and inviting - a world where one belongs, together with all of the rest of creation. Recommended to anyone who enjoys beautiful picture-books, as well as to anyone who would like a reassurance tale - one that says: "yes, young listener, you do belong: you belong with those who love you" - that is as poetic as it is calming.
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pairs a beautiful text with haunting artwork. There is much here about the natural world: "The whales and the fishes belong in the sea / and the waves belong by the shore, / and the dune's where the grasses belong to be / because grasses are what dunes are for. / And the trees belongs in the wild wood / and the deer belong in their shade, / and the birds belong so safe and good / and warm in the nests that they've made." But there is also a refrain that assures the young listener that they too belong, together with the reader - perhaps a parent? - in a circle of love.Poet M.H. Clark delivers a powerful work here, one that reads well aloud, and will linger long after in the mind, with beautiful word-images and thoughtful juxtapositions of creature and place. Isabelle Arsenault, who also illustrated Jane, the Fox, and Me and Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois, delivers equally lovely visual images, utilizing a subtle sepia-toned palette, with the occasional colorful accent, to create a world both mysterious and inviting - a world where one belongs, together with all of the rest of creation. Recommended to anyone who enjoys beautiful picture-books, as well as to anyone who would like a reassurance tale - one that says: "yes, young listener, you do belong: you belong with those who love you" - that is as poetic as it is calming.
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Subjects
Awards
Independent Publisher Book Awards (Gold — 2017)
Language
Physical description
29 cm
ISBN
1938298993 / 9781938298998