Held in Love

by Dawn Casey, Oamul Lu (Illustrator)

May your eyes look to the stars and know that you are held in the arms of the universe, held in love. This mother's blessing, delivered in gentle, lilting rhyme, expresses the love between parent and child. Reflective and sincere, its intimate yet universal message, eloquently depicted with beguiling, painterly artwork, will resonate with new parents the world-over. A timeless message that will endure for generations, this is the perfect gift for new parents.

Genres: Picture Books, Fiction, Family

32 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2018

About the author

Dawn Casey traveled in Africa and Asia before working in a garden studio, publishing multicultural children's books. She now dreams up her own stories, inspired by the everyday magic of the world. She lives with her husband, two little ones, and a tabby cat.

Reviews

[Paul]

Simple and warming. Not about picking fruit though, Noah thought he’d chosen a book about how to pick fruit, and was saddened to learn this wasn’t the case.

[Christina Reid]

Found this in my local library and immediately picked it up because of the beautiful cover. I really like the illustrator's style and colour palette which gives this book an amazing feeling of warmth. It starts off by looking at out small world in the galaxy, then zooming in until it reaches a mother reading to her baby and wishing for all the wonderful things she knows that the child is going to experience as they grow up. A lovely book for new parents!

[Zoe Hickey]

What an amazing front cover!

There is three different examples of personification used at the start of this book, it would be great to use with a class to clearly show the power of personification. However, I do not think you would be able to base a whole scheme of work on this book.

The beautiful illustrations support the choice of words throughout the book. It is a very simple and short book but effective.

[Merricat]

Okay this was the sweetest. Will definitely be picking up copies to give to friends with little ones