Looking for an inspirational story then “The Promise” by Nicola Davies is the best selection. The promise with gorgeous illustrations tells a poignant story which is just magical and sublime. I am a big fan of the Lorax and the secret garden and I enjoy a lot reading this sophisticated and beautiful written green theme story after a long time. Nicola discusses a very hard subject of using individual power proficiently and how one can transform his/her surroundings positively.
A young girl who is a thief, one day is held by a promise to plant acorns. The magic of plantation transforms a dull, boring and bleak world to bright, colorful and lively world. Stupendous presentation and easy to read style made this story very captivating. I love the ending of this story. Indeed life is a full circle and the same girl who once stole a bag extracts the same promise from the thief of her bag full of acorn. I love the concept behind this moving story that is hope and the importance of environment. It’s a must to share story with elementary students because of its powerful yet tender message about power, greenery and protection of natural world.
Anyone can feel in love at first sight with this enthralling illustrated book. Matthias Arégui and Anne-Margot Ramstein have created a magic with their detailed, crispy digital images in their gorgeous book “Before and after”. It’s a wordless and neat guide about life filled with simplicity. This book amazingly presents many transformations in their original before and after manner which occur every day in our lives in the most appealing visuals. Be it rolling landscape or single growing plant, be it an enchanting transformation of caterpillar to a colorful butterfly or dormant volcano into an active one, be it animals or under construction urban sites the illustrators have painted every transformation with fervor and soft and warms colors.
It’s just not for the kids; it’s also very informative for adults too because of it captivating graphics. Every time I go through this book I get lost into it and smiles every time at the end. It’s a fascinating book which provides humor and peace to mind. Kids get hooked to this book instantly therefore this book is perfect to gift to kids.