DEBRA FRASIER is the creator of Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster and its companion book, The Incredible Water Show, as well as Out of the Ocean. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"A book filled with reverence for the natural order of the world
and the place of the individual in it."--School Library Journal
(starred review) "Reading this picture book aloud to a child, even
the most jaded among us may feel again the sheer miracle of our
human existence. A+"--Entertainment Weekly
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Offering a curious amalgam of the mystical and the scientific, Frasier's first picture book is a paean to nature and to birth. The poetic text explains how the sun, moon, ocean tides, rain, trees, air, animals and people of the world work together to create a welcoming setting for a baby's arrival. Young readers will find Frasier's rhythmic passages soothing, if not always entirely comprehensible: ``On the day you were born the Moon pulled on the ocean below, and, wave by wave, a rising tide washed the beaches clean for your footprints. . . .'' The volume concludes with notes on the natural and technical phenomena mentioned in the text, including animal migration, the rotation of the earth, gravity, stellar constellations and precipitation. Illustrating this unusual book, Frasier's paper collages feature a mostly muted palette of earth tones that is somewhat lacking in child appeal. Though it might spark interesting discussions with an older child, this work will be over the heads of little ones. All ages. (Mar.)
"A book filled with reverence for the natural order of the world
and the place of the individual in it."--School Library
Journal (starred review) "Reading this picture book aloud to a
child, even the most jaded among us may feel again the sheer
miracle of our human existence.
A+"--Entertainment Weekly
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