Bruce Handy's picture book, "There Was a Shadow," explores the relationship between light and shadow in the natural world and our emotional landscape. It follows a girl as she plays with her shadows, takes refuge in the shade, and sets out for home in the violet glow of twilight. With lyrical text and dramatic, sensitive art, the book invites readers to notice the position of the sun and the corresponding length or shortness of shadows, as well as the subtle ways in which light and shadow reveal and obscure things both in the world and in ourselves.

Format: Hardback
Length: 52 pages
Publication date: 06 June 2024
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books

From New York Times Best Childrens Book author Bruce Handy,

a luminous picture book that invites careful observation of light and shadow in the natural world,

as well as in our own emotional landscape

A Bookshop.org Best Picture Book of 2024!

• A Publishers Weekly

2024 Summer Read!

As the sun makes its daily journey across the sky,

light comes down to illuminate our world.

Moving and dancing along with this light come a variety of shadows—

those cast by the sun and those cast by our feelings,

minds, and memories.

Here we follow a girl from dawn through dusk into night

as she and her friends play with their shadows,

take refuge in the shade of a large tree,

and set out again for home in the violet glow of twilight.

With a lyrical text from Bruce Handy and dramatic,

sensitive art from award-winning illustrator Lisk Feng,

There Was a Shadow

invites readers to look up and down,

in and out––to notice the position of the sun and the corresponding length or shortness of shadows,

as well as the subtle ways in which light and shadow reveal and obscure things both in the world and in ourselves.

With images that swell and overflow with light,

this is a picture book that is sure to awe and delight.

Weight: 576g
Dimension: 252 x 286 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781592704064