Suite for human nature / by Diane Charlotte Lampert ; illustrated by Eric Puybaret ; based on a musical composition by Diane Charlotte Lampert and Wynton Marsalis.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781416953739 (hardcover)
- 1416953736 (hardcover)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Folk Tales & Fairy Tales | Lampert Diane Ch | Checked out | 07/11/2024 | 33111008576809 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the legendary songwriter Diane Lampert, based on a musical piece she wrote with Pulitzer Prize and nine-time Grammy-winning jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, comes an exquisitely illustrated folktale about how we humans got some of our...naughtier...traits, and what overcomes them all.
Mother Nature is a very busy woman. Her job is to tend to the Earth and all the creatures that dwell there--she must wake up the bulbs and warm the land in spring, then rush off to freeze the ponds and create snow in winter. But more than anything, Mother Nature wants children of her own. So with twigs and things she made five: Fear, Envy, Hate, Greed, and Fickle. She asks the most helpless of creatures--the poor, wingless humans--to watch over them as she works. But then her children's wild personalities begin to seep into human nature in a way that Mother Nature never intended.
A lilting, lyrical ode to all of our human shortcomings and the one trait--love--that can overcome them all, this book beautifully captures the complexity of us all.
"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book."
All ages.
"Mother Nature is a very busy woman. Her job is to tend to the Earth and all the creatures that dwell there she must wake up the bulbs and warm the land in spring, then rush off to freeze the ponds and create snow in winter. But more than anything, Mother Nature wants children of her own. So with twigs and things she made five: Fear, Envy, Hate, Greed, and Fickle. She asks the most helpless of creature the poor, wingless humans to watch over them as she works. But then her children's wild personalities begin to seep into human nature in a way that Mother Nature never intended. A lilting, lyrical ode to all of our human shortcomings and the one trait love that can overcome them all, this book beautifully captures the complexity of us all."--Amazon website.