If All the Seas Were One Sea
By Janina Domanska
The Story
An old nursery rhyme imagines all the world's seas as one giant sea, all its trees as one enormous tree, and then asks: what if that tree came crashing down into that sea?
Why It's Special
For the kid who loves asking 'what if' about everything huge and impossible, this old rhyme turns one giant question into a whole book of wonder.
- Big idea: Big, playful questions about the world are worth asking, even when they don't have tidy answers.
- Vibes: Playful, grand, a little mischievous, quietly wondrous.
Perfect For Kids Who
- love big, silly what-if questions
- enjoy rhymes and repeating patterns
- respond well to bold, striking artwork
- like to imagine impossibly large things
Ask Your Little Reader
- Imagination: What do you picture when you imagine all the seas in the world joined into one giant sea?
- Imagination: What would it look like if every tree in the world were really just one huge tree?
- Story & wondering: What do you think might happen if that one big tree fell into that one big sea?
- Art & noticing: What did you notice about the pictures that made the sea or the tree feel so enormous?
- Real-life connection: What's the biggest 'what if' question you can think of about our world?
