BY Mary oliver
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Published by Viking Books for Young Readers
“In the north country now it is spring and there is a certain celebration.
The thrush has come home.
It is okay to know only one song if it is this one.”
Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most beloved poets. Introducing her unforgettable words to children for the very first time, her poem "Goldfinches" joyfully observes the power of the natural world as only Mary Oliver can.
Illuminated by the exquisite mixed-media artwork of Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet, Goldfinches fills the reader with wonder for the beauty around them and gratitude for the ability to bear witness to it. IndieBound, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or in your local library.
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““The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet’s tribute to the relationship between goldfinches and thistles finds new life in picture-book form… A superlative union of verse and visual art.”—Kirkus, starred review”
““Sweet vibrantly illuminates an incisive and joyful work from the late poet Oliver in a picture book that takes the feel of a naturalist’s notebook.””
““Sweet’s art treats Oliver’s poem with respect but never stuffiness, using vivid yellows, pinks, and blues and occasionally incorporating natural-world materials.””
““An essential purchase for young-reader collections that asks, ‘Have you ever been so happy in your life?””