All The World

All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrations by Marla Frazee
2010 Caldecott Honor

note: Marla Frazee is the author and illustrator of 2009 Caldecott Honor book: A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever

All the World is a book in verse with large two-page-spread paintings to illustrate a families day at the shore. So, it's a day of digging in the sand, picking ripe tomatoes, climbing trees, warming up beside a fire, making music with the extended family, and feeling the stillness at the end of the day.

Here are a couple of samples:

"Body, shoulder, arm, hand.
A moat to dig, a shell to keep.
All the World is wide and deep."

or "Nanas, papas, cousins, kin.
Piano, harp and violin.
Babies passed from neck to knee.
All the world is you and me."

I like this book! It's got a nice way of taking the little and making it big.