Winter Light

With an eye to holiday rituals and nature’s rebirth, New York Times best-selling creator Aaron Becker offers a luminous die-cut companion to You Are Light, My Favorite Color, and One Sky.

Hush, now. Be still.
It’s time for winter light.

Come winter, the days grow short. Sunlight filters through bare branches as ice crystals cover the meadow. In this quiet time, we turn to warmth and light, to family rituals and traditions. With jewellike die-cuts revealing the colors of the season against soft painterly backgrounds, Caldecott Honoree Aaron Becker captures the light of winter skies and lengthening days, the glow of candle and hearth, and the heart’s yearning for spring’s return.Aaron Becker turns a seasonal deficit into an asset in “Winter Light,” an elegant and understated board book for children ages 3-8 that invites an expansive understanding of luminosity. . . “Winter Light” has a soothing, meditative feel that imparts a sense of gratitude for the gleams and sparkles to be found even in days grown “short and dark.”
—Wall Street Journal

Winter Light is a board book, those sturdy, thick picture books the very little can even do some teething on without too much damage. Usually, they’re durable versions of beloved books. In this case, artist Aaron Becker uses the possibilities of a board book to incorporate cut-outs into a sweetly fanciful celebration of winter and the holidays it contains, complete with ornaments and glimpses of sunlight or moonlight or the light in your bedroom or wherever you might be while reading it. A nice reminder that beauty is all around.
—ParadeAaron Becker is the Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator of the Journey trilogy as well as A Stone for Sascha, The Tree and the River, and The Last Zookeeper. He is also the creator of the novelty books You Are Light, My Favorite Color, and One Sky. Aaron Becker lives in western Massachusetts with his family.