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ELIN KELSEY, PhD, is an award-winning author and a leading spokesperson for hope and the environment. She co-created #OceanOptimism, a Twitter campaign share ocean conservation successes which has reached 90 million users to date. She works with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Stanford University and the University of Victoria and is passionate about engaging kids in hopeful, science-based, environmental solutions. SOYEON KIM is a Toronto-based, Korean-born artist who specializes in fine sketching and painting techniques to create three-dimensional dioramas. She is a graduate of the Visual Arts and Education programs at York University.
A lovely piece of enhanced nonfiction... Thoughtful and eye-opening. -- School Library Journal Gentle and reassuring, with amazing artwork once again, this is a book that is as hopeful as it is beautiful. -- Sal's Fiction Addiction Kim's absorbing dioramas create tender scenes of community, intimacy, and loss...readers will appreciate the matter-of-fact, never emotionally prescriptive look at creatures' mourning behaviors. -- Publishers Weekly Scientifically sound and philosophically profound. -- Kirkus Reviews - STARRED REVIEW The book adopts a gentle tone and establishes a mood of reverence and respect through Elin Kelsey's written text and Soyeon Kim's attractive artwork. -- Canadian Review of Materials This stunning picture book is unusual in many ways, from its unique and seldom-explored topic to the illustrations done in collage and created using dioramas. -- Booklist Visually stunning, simultaneously warming and wrenching. This book does not soften the loss of a loved one, although it portrays the life cycle and honoring of those we miss in a beautiful and loving way. A pang of sadness comes with this beauty, but it's only natural. -- Andrew King, University Book Store (WA)
