With beautiful poetic text and gorgeous cut-out illustrations, this picture book is a celebration of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. Here Earth is personified as a brown-skinned woman who gently wakes in spring and sometimes rains too much, etc. as the book takes you through each season. This is one to pore over the pictures.

This picture book is absolutely GORGEOUS. The text is poetic and beautiful, too, but the die-cut illustrations were beyond captivating. I actually think the illustrations could have stood alone as a wordless book and it would have been just as good.

I was surprised by how animal-focused this book is, rather than on plants or ecosystems.

Earth can be your friend! Also good for seasons.

Lovely art style, decent (non-rhyming) prose.

To be honest I wasn't instilled with a sense of wonderment about the natural world. Maybe it tried to cover to many things? It was too vague?

Maybe just not my taste

2.5 stars - it's lyrical and the illustrations are beautiful with nice cutouts, but the story itself is so ephemeral and intangible I think it misses its target audience completely.

Some reflections as a Native librarian. 1) Mother Earth is not just brown 2) Is presenting a one-toned-brown-colored Mother Earth (person) a true reflection of Mother Earth? Is this representation accurate for indigenous communities? 3) Is wind part of Mother Earth? Is it the same or different to water in the pages? 4) I enjoyed the description and illustrations of diverse biomes - however, they are unique in direction, history and culture, the Mother Earth character in the story did not reflect the cultures or histories of the people in these biomes - there is connection between this and accurate/respectful land representation. The Mother Earth character closely resembles indigenous - sometimes mainstream - representations of land told through oral traditions which have been translated into text and illustration; I immediately wondered if the author or illustrator was of the peoples who tell these traditional stories, they are not. I wonder what influenced the imagination or creative processing to design and show Mother Earth as a brown child with black long wavy hair, brown skin, and tan-hide colored clothing? There is similarity in human features of Sanna's "The Journey" book, and Mother Earth's clothing matches the color of the buck in "The Journey."

This book is lovely. Such a visual treat.

The production values of this are fabulous, with cut-outs and flaps. The quality and thickness of the paper means it may last quite a few reads, which is important in a library situation.
A simple story, but beautifully told.
I really like Earth's knees in the water.