Lily Loves

by Kai Luftner, Judith Drews (Illustrator)

Overview

Lily is full of contradictions. She is no longer little, but she is not yet big. She doesn’t like math, but she loves to paint numbers. She has silky princess hair that is also as wild as a lion’s mane. And she loves stories that never could have happened, but are true all the same. Lily isn’t perfect, but even so Lily loves herself. This plucky character will inspire all kids to love who they are. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897476949
Publisher:	Simply Read Books
Publication date:	08/15/2012
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kai Luftner was born in 1975 in Berlin, Germany. Author and director, he has written a number of children's books and runs a cafe in Berlin with his wife.

Judith Drews is a Berlin-based children’s books illustrator who also works for magazines and fashion labels. She studied illustration and design at the renowned HAW Hamburg. She has published over twenty books and won many international awards.

Editorial Reviews

Drews’s drawings look like they’ve been chalked on the sidewalk; her coral and sky blue color scheme echoes Lüftner’s portrait of Lily, a mercurial character who’s on fire one minute and reflective the next. “Lily can scream so loudly that the birds lose their feathers,” Lüftner says; Drews shows the pigtailed Lily with her hands thrown out theatrically, sound waves spiraling outward from her mouth. “But she can also whisper so softly that she can’t hear herself,” he adds. Drews shows Lily in blue, one end of a tin can phone to her mouth, the other to her ear, looking puzzled. Far from being bothered by her contradictory nature, Lily revels in it, and Lüftner finishes by addressing readers: “You are simply the world’s best when you are who you are,” he says. “Just look in the mirror and love yourself.” It’s a clunky ending that breaks the “show, don’t tell” rule; Lily doesn’t need help demonstrating what “being who you are” is like—she manages it beautifully all by herself. As a vivid portrait of a spirited girl, though, this is a treat. Ages 3–7. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for the hardcover edition of Lily Love:

Winner, Merit Award at New York's 3 x3 Magazine

Winner, Second prize in the Alcuin Society Book Design Awards

"This heartwarming tale will become a beloved story time read for many young children."
CM Magazine

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