"Stunningly beautiful . Between is the story of a cabbage moth and a cricket finding friendship between opposites: day and night, silence and sound, over and under. Despite its simplicity, it is easily a book I can see younger and older readers alike returning to time and again, simply for the peaceful pleasure of the illustrations." --Youth Services Book Review, STARRED review "Walker enhances her clever, spare text with evocative illustrations presented in an overlapping tri-color palette--blue, peach, and in-between gray, softened with dotted white. Her meticulous pointillism creates invitingly soft spreads that suggest a dreamy wonderland ripe for slow exploration. Her insect protagonists are anthropomorphized just enough to capture curious, questioning, welcoming emotions they shyly, gently reveal to each other. An illuminating look at friendship--and how it heightens each and every moment." --Kirkus Reviews "Opposing concepts propel Walker's atmospheric account of two solitary insects connecting around daylight's edges.
Spray paint and pencil illustrations unfold in peach and indigo shades, the diffuse colors bringing a soft otherworldliness to quiet natural scenes of a moth and a cricket . The wordless moments that follow emanate an aching warmth when the featureless pair adventure across leaves, culminating in a stirring pas de deux between the slender shapes . The nature of ephemerality comes into focus in this visually stirring work." --Publishers Weekly "Anna Walker is a magician for the ages, and Between, her greatest enchantment yet." --Chloe Hooper, multi-award winning author of Bedtime Story "Anna Walker's Between is a deeply moving reminder of the need for connection and the beauty that emerges when we are truly seen. Utterly exquisite." --Hannah Kent "This is a beautiful book to share with any child in a quiet time before bed, inviting an understanding of connection, friendship and empathy." --Melanie Barton, Readings "[A] beautiful and meditative picture book that invites readers to pause, observe and imagine.
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