Tiny Pieces, by Kelly Artieri (Crisp Water Publishing, 2025, 48pp PB, $12.99, children's book)
A small girl with her mother are walking in a field full of flowers, both yellow and white. The girl, though little, is big enough to walk by herself as long as she doesn't veer too far away from her mother. She is picking white flowers for her when a gust of wind comes along and blows the flowers from her hands: poor Penny is devastated watching the floating feathers, helpless and no longer a happy little flower angel.
Turning Disaster into a Little Bit of Heaven
Mother explains nature's ways to Penny while the reader recognizes that they are dandelions full of seeds: the reader recognizes dandelions full of seeds that the wind is dispersing - the first step nature takes to spread them. Mother shows Penny how to feel the sun and hear the wind in the grass.
Written and illustrated by Kelly Artieri, Tiny Pieces is a work of art for explaining how nature works to the little girl, but also for the portrait-like pages that I simply want to frame!
Artieri is also an accomplished medical and scientific illustrator and book cover designer.
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