Books like All the World
By Liz Garton Scanlon
For families who love slowing down at the end of the day, this one turns ordinary moments — a beach, a meal, a storm rolling through — into something worth noticing together. Quiet, warm, and gently rhythmic, like a held breath before bedtime.
A boy named Eli grows up on his grandparents' farm, learning to love the barn, the fields, and the river that surround him — then shares those same places with his baby sister, Sylvie.
A gentle retelling of the Nativity story, set among barn animals who witness a quiet, extraordinary birth on a cold night.
A girl and her grandmother gather salmon, herring eggs, and berries across the seasons on their island home, singing to the land as it sings back to them.
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 six-year-old boy spends his days in his grandfather Luis's towering garden, learning bird names, playful expressions, and reading and writing from a grandfather who never had schooling of his own.
Twelve poems follow one family through a full year, from January sledding to July fireworks to autumn leaves underfoot, finding wonder in each month's particular light and weather.
A boy and his father fish before dawn at a Minneapolis pond, not for sport but for food, while stories of a different pond back in Vietnam quietly surface between casts.
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.
A family farm moves through a full year, from spring planting to morning chores to the first cold rains of autumn, following animals, crops, and the people who tend them.
A gentle picture book imagines Cat Heaven, where beloved cats run through fields of sweet grass, play with favorite toys, and are cared for by angels who rub their noses and ears.
A young beaver named Buckley carves small wooden boats and sends them out to sea, each one carrying a note to the father he's lost.
