Crescendo

Crescendo is a visual and poetic celebration of the transition to motherhood, featuring watercolor illustrations by Alessandro Sanna that capture the transformation of a mother's shape throughout her pregnancy. The poem by Paola Quintavalle weaves delicately throughout the book, creating a vision of joy and rest at the culmination of an incredible inward journey.

Format: Hardback
Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2019
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books

Crescendo is a visual and poetic celebration of the transition to motherhood, featuring gorgeous watercolor illustrations from Alessandro Sanna that follow the transformation of a mother's shape throughout her pregnancy, artfully and gracefully delineated not only by images of a mother's profile, but by rich, sweeping scenes from nature. The curved wingspan of a seagull in flight, the arc of a whale's tail as she swims with her calves, the peaks of verdant, moonlit hills, among others, and at last, there is an image of a mother embracing her newborn child, at once lilting and reverent—a vision of joy and rest at the culmination of an incredible inward journey. Quintavalle's poem, written as a response to Sanna's illustrations, weaves delicately throughout the book. An ode to mothers everywhere, Crescendo is a book to share and treasure.

Also from Alessandro Sanna, published by Enchanted Lion Books: The River and Pinocchio: An Origin Story.

Weight: 408g
Dimension: 200 x 200 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781592702558