Status
Available
Collection
Publication
New York : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2018]
Description
"Join in a multicultural celebration of unity and diversity friendships all around the world as we read and sing along with joy, love, and peace!" -- dust jacket. An illustrated text for the adapted spiritual song with pictures of children from different lands.
User reviews
LibraryThing member Lake_Oswego_UCC
Rewording of an old familiar song with bright, bold illustrations.
LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Author/artist Rafael Lopez uses the classic American spiritual, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" as the starting point for this lovely new picture-book, offering a charming visual depiction of the world's diverse children, all working and playing together. His message, that we've all
I found We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands just beautiful, from a visual perspective, and loved the artwork on every single page. There were moments when I thought the text stumbled a bit - the refrain, "We've got you and you've got me in our hands," doesn't quite work, with the distracting disconnect between the first personal plural in the first part, and the first person singular in the second - but otherwise this adaptation reads quite well. I did wish that Lopez had mentioned, in his brief afterword, that many believe the song to have been written by Obie Edwin Philpot. I also found it odd that he described the essential message of the song as being one of "unity," when the nature of God's all-encompassing love seems like the central idea of the original. Perhaps some people see that love as a form of unity. Leaving those issues aside, I appreciated the back matter, which includes the musical notation for the song. Recommended to fans of Rafael Lopez' artwork, and to anyone looking for picture-book revisions of this well-loved song.
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collectively got the world in our hands, jumps off of every page...I found We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands just beautiful, from a visual perspective, and loved the artwork on every single page. There were moments when I thought the text stumbled a bit - the refrain, "We've got you and you've got me in our hands," doesn't quite work, with the distracting disconnect between the first personal plural in the first part, and the first person singular in the second - but otherwise this adaptation reads quite well. I did wish that Lopez had mentioned, in his brief afterword, that many believe the song to have been written by Obie Edwin Philpot. I also found it odd that he described the essential message of the song as being one of "unity," when the nature of God's all-encompassing love seems like the central idea of the original. Perhaps some people see that love as a form of unity. Leaving those issues aside, I appreciated the back matter, which includes the musical notation for the song. Recommended to fans of Rafael Lopez' artwork, and to anyone looking for picture-book revisions of this well-loved song.
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LibraryThing member Robinsonstef
Beautiful illustrations and a great message about how we have the whole world in our hands. Nicely arranged.
Subjects
Awards
CLEL Bell Picture Book Award for Early Literacy (Nominee — 2019)
Language
Physical description
31 cm
ISBN
1338177362 / 9781338177367