We Share This Earth: A Community Book

by Dan Saks, Brooke Smart (Illustrator)

Overview

A rhyming, heartfelt celebration of the worldwide community and the vital role it plays in young children’s lives.

This formative board book is an appreciation of our global community and the many ways in which it helps develop empathy, compassion, and collective responsibility. Specific examples of shared community are depicted across twelve countries, inviting young readers to connect with and acknowledge the importance of caring about and for one another, and the Earth we share.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593658291
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	02/27/2024
Series:	Community Books
Pages:	26
Sales rank:	934,476
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	AD700L (what's this?)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Dan Saks is an author, musician, and music educator specializing in early childhood education. He has lived and taught in NYC, Mexico City, and Switzerland and has traveled the world as a performing musician. He has published three books for children, centered around the theme of FAMILY. He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Brooklyn, New York, where he produces Noodle Loaf, a popular music education podcast for kids with over one million downloads. A Top 10 Apple Podcast in Music Education for Kids, Noodle Loaf builds on the fundamentals of music through play and the exploration of musical genres and silly sounds... lots of silly sounds.

Brooke Smart is an illustrator based in Sandy, Utah, where she spends her days gathering ideas for stories and her nights telling those stories with her pen and paintbrush, inspired by her children. Brooke earned a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University and started her artistic career as a fine artist. She loves working with traditional media, especially with watercolor, gouache, and on occasion, acrylic paint. Her work appears in children's magazines, children's books, but also on cards and other learning materials. She lives in Utah with her husband and three children.

Editorial Reviews

"A lovely introduction to the concept of community." —School Library Journal

"Saks reminds readers in rhyming lines that on our interconnected planet, everything that happens affects others, even those we’ve never met." —Booklist

From the Publisher

03/01/2024

PreS-K—A tribute to our connectedness informs the youngest generation of our need to take care of the earth. The poetic text relates the ways we are a human family and how "we depend upon our planet and upon each other." VERDICT A lovely introduction to the concept of community.

School Library Journal