Simple Thanks

by Deborah Wiles (Author) Bao Luu (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

From award-winning author Deborah Wiles and illustrator Bao Luu comes an exuberant and heartwarming picture book tribute to the things that connect us all--nature, love, and gratitude.

I hear the song that nature sings

that links each heart to mine.

The ocean blue, the sky above

the forest with its pine.

For a young brother and sister, every day spent in nature is an adventure, and every natural marvel they encounter is a gift. Together, they run through fields of tall grass and say thank you for the rain; they greet fish in babbling brooks and say thank you for the clear blue waters. At the end of each adventure, they say thank you for the new friends they collected along the way. When given a chance to do more than say thank you, the siblings gather their tools--their friends, their shovels, and their watering cans--and plant the seeds of gratitude.

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Kirkus

Much-needed encouragement to engage with the natural world, if a bit on the lofty side.
Deborah Wiles

Deborah Wiles is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the beloved Love, Ruby Lavender and two National Book Award finalists-Each Little Bird that Sings and Revolution. her first picture book, Freedom Summer, received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. she is also an NAACP Book Award finalist, E.B. White Award winner, Golden Kite Award winner, Jane Addams Peace Award finalist, and recipient of a PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bao Luu dreamed of becoming an artist as a child, and today his work as an illustrator focuses on bright, playful colors and unique textures. He is the illustrator of Simple Thanks written by Deborah Wiles and The Seed of Compassion written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Bao Luu was born and raised in Vietnam and currently lives near Houston, Texas.

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781250780607
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Publication date
April 09, 2024
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV039220 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Values & Virtues
JUV013070 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
JUV029010 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | Environment
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Nature
Gratitude
Siblings

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