Where the Deer Slip Through

(Hardback)

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Discover the wonder that wildlife brings to a small woodland farm in this lyrical cumulative picture book with stunning scratchboard illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Beth Krommes.

This is the hedge that grew and grew.
The wall of stone a bit askew.
This is the gap where the deer slip through,
when the sky is still more pink than blue

Throughout the course of a beautiful summer day, from sunrise to moonrise, a host of animals find their way through a gap in the hedge, bringing the farm to life.

Author Bio

Katey Howes (19772024) was an award-winning poet and author of picture books including Woven of the World; Rissy No Kissies; A Poem Grows Inside You, a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book; and Be a Maker, a recipient of the International Literacy Associations Social Justice Literature Award. She was a passionate crafter, a frequent contributor to parenting, literacy, and STEAM websites, and she especially loved working to restore native plants to the woods and wetlands around her Pennsylvania home.

Beth Krommes received the Caldecott Medal in 2009 forThe House in the Nightby Susan Marie Swanson. She has illustrated a number of other highly acclaimed picture books, includingBlue on Blueby Dianne White andSwirl by Swirl: Spirals in Natureby Joyce Sidman. Beth lives with her family in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Visit her at BethKrommes.com.