Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis Style:hardcover The Widow's Lament in Springtime

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

Grandfather came home in the evening covered with the black dust of a coal mine

He was a playwright and journalist as well as a poet and storyteller

and three new spreads

entomology department curator of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis Style:hardcover The Widow's Lament in SpringtimeA 2017 Caldecott Honor BookThe creator of Home turns a droll eye to the natural world, with gorgeous art and a playful invented language. Du iz tak? What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soonwith the help of a pill bug named Ickythey wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort. But this is the wild world, after all, and something