She is Born (Hardcover)

From renowned children's author Virginia Kroll comes a story that beautifully describes the way cultures around the world welcome the birth of a daughter. It is a moving tribute to a girl's birth and the special ties between a mother and daughter.

This picture book lyrically describes how cultures around the world welcome the birth of a daughter. The author and illustrator's careful research, poetic prose, and soft illustrations depict a diverse array of rituals, celebrations, and traditions that mark the beginning of a girl's life as she is named, cradled, and given gifts. An affirmation of the universal bond between mothers and daughters completes the circle.

• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 32
• Illustrator or Photographer: John Rowe, illustrator
• ISBN: 1885223943 / 9781885223944
• Dimensions: 9 x 9
• Categories: Children & Young Adult, Women

• In stately, rhythmic cadences, with words set down in several fonts accompanied by hyperrealistic images, Kroll and Rowe make a mighty song of welcome to newly born girls: "She is born, born, BORN! . . . and Earth will never be the same."

  —Booklist

• The book does a fine job of establishing a sense of commonality among all women. The drawings are of photographic quality. They are both soothing and startling and provide a larger-than-life view of reality.

  —School Library Journal

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