Description: Originally commissioned for Lee Bennett Hopkins's poetry collection "Wonderful Words," Paul's clever and inspiring poem serves as the framework for a vivid and imaginative celebration of book building. Full color.
Brief description: Kurt Cyrus has illustrated numerous acclaimed picture books celebrating the natural world, including What in the World?: Numbers in Nature by Nancy Raines Day; Mammoths on the Move by Lisa Wheeler; and his own Tadpole Rex and The Voyage of Turtle Rex. His art also appears in the middle grade series Pals in Peril by M.T. Anderson. Kurt lives with his wife in McMinnville, Oregon. Visit him at KurtCyrus.com.