Every now and then a book comes along whose message transcends beyond the text and illustrations.   A book that is more than the sum of its parts.  Liz Garton Scanlon’s rhyming couplets and Marla Frazee’s pencil and water color tackles the impossible job of capturing the sense of wonder and mystery about hour human existence on the planet. Through these pictures and vignettes, we follow a multicultural family from a summer morning, to the end of the day and a quiet night at home.  What a heartwarming celebration of our interconnectedness  in a world that provides us everything.  After reading this simple, exquisite book, I was compelled, once again, to live each day in gratitude.