Books like All in a Day
By Cynthia Rylant
A single seed falls into the ground, and through sun, rain, and patient time, sprouts roots, a stalk, and leaves — growing into a towering sunflower that makes seeds of its own.
A gentle look at all the reasons trees are good to have around — for climbing, for shade, for leaf piles to roll in, and for birds to build nests in.
As the sun comes up, birds, horses, rabbits, flowers, and bugs wake one by one, until finally the children rise to greet the day too.
An elderly, mysterious figure closes his book each evening and walks through a hushed forest, carrying out a quiet nightly task that brings twilight to the world.
On a late winter night, a young girl and her father walk silently into snowy woods, calling into the darkness in hopes that a real owl will answer back.
A day in the life of family and friends unfolds from morning to night, moving from a tiny shell on the beach to the wide, darkening sunset sky.
A gentle bedtime rhyme imagines which dream animal might carry a sleepy child off tonight — a bear to bake pastries, a fox into a magical forest, mermaids for tea.
A little bunny, tucked into bed in a great green room, says goodnight one by one to everything around him — the moon, the clocks, the mittens, the kittens — until sleep comes.
On a dark, frozen winter night, a small farmyard troll slips silently from barn to stable to shed, quietly watching over the sleeping animals until spring comes.
A sheltered prince leaves his palace, encounters suffering and death for the first time, and gives up his family and wealth to search for the truth of life — a journey that ends in enlightenment beneath a bodhi tree.
A little boy named Peter wakes to a fresh snowfall and spends the whole day outside making snow angels, building a snowman, and sliding down snowy hills before it all begins again the next morning.
A wordless village grows page by page across twelve months, with one house, two hills, three children and more slowly filling the landscape as the seasons and numbers climb together.
