Love Is... - Hardcover

Bible, King James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689829809 ISBN 13: 9780689829802

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2001

Synopsis

A celebrated artist combines intricate watercolor illustrations with a well-known New Testament passage to explain the meaning of love. By the illustrator of the Cobble Street Cousins series.

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Review:

Subject of sonnets, songs, and soul searching, love is--and is not--many things. "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not envious or boastful. Love is not arrogant or rude." In her adaptation of I Corinthians 13, Wendy Anderson Halperin presents the elegantly simple definition of the word "love" the apostle Paul offered 2,000 years ago. She features one of Paul's definitions on each whimsically illustrated two-page spread. Pages are framed in an ornate yet homespun decorative pattern, and covered with divided boxes portraying the dearth of love's benefits on the left (sticking out your tongue, for example), and the bounty of love on the right (a fatherly kiss on the head). Halperin's detailed pencil and watercolor illustrations will provide something new to explore with every reading--dozens of picture stories-within-stories act as a starting point for discussion with children.

Halperin has illustrated many charming books for children, including Marsha Wilson Chall's Bonaparte and Sophie and Rose by Kathryn Lasky. (Ages 4 to 8, or a gift from adult to adult) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

Wendy Anderson Halperin is an acclaimed artist who has illustrated dozens of books for children including Let’s Go Home by Cynthia Rylant, Soft House by Jane Yolen, and Turn, Turn, Turn! by Peter Seeger. She lives in South Haven, Michigan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0689829809
• ISBN 13: 9780689829802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Halperin Wendy Anderson