Written by Xelena Gonzalez
Illustrated by Adriana Garcia
- Age Range: 3 - 7 years
- Grade Level: Preschool - 2
- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press (September 12, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1941026761
- ISBN-13: 978-1941026762
Circles are all around us. We just have to look for them.
Sometimes they exist in the most unusual places, even places we cannot see.
Grandpa says circles are all around us. He points to the rainbow
that rises high in the sky after a thundercloud has come. "Can you see?
That's only half of the circle. That rest of it is down below, in the
earth."
He and his granddaughter meditate on gardens and seeds, on
circles seen and unseen, inside and outside us, on where our bodies come from
and where they return to. They share and create family traditions in this
stunning exploration of the cycles of life and nature.
This is a debut picture book for Xelena Gonzalez and Adriana
Garcia.
Xelena González
has roots in San Antonio, Texas, but has stretched her wings to fly all the way
to Guangzhou, China, where she works as a librarian in an international school.
She studied journalism at Northwestern University and library science at Texas
Woman’s University, but her true training as a storyteller has come from
getting to know other living beings—including plants, animals, and people who
happen to speak different languages or see the world in unusual ways. She tells
these stories through picture books, essays, song, and dance. All
Around Us is her first book.
Adriana M. Garcia
creates as a way to document lives and to honor the human existence, aiming to
extract the inherent liminality of a moment before action as a way to
articulate our stories. She is proficient both in traditional painting as well
as web-based new-media applications. For this particular project, Adriana and
her collaborator have challenged each other to answer complex questions about culture,
humanity, and unique worldviews in a way that is simple, universal, and
appealing enough to reach the youngest members of our society. All
Around Us is her first book illustration project.
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