Choose Your Days
By: Paula Wallace
Illustrator: Paula Wallace
Old Bear gives baby Corky the keys to her days. “Choose your days,” he whispers. “Make them sunny or grey.”
Tags: picture books
Book Details
Hardback:
10-digit ISBN: 1-941026-37-3
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-941026-37-3
Paperback:
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-941026-38-0
Details
Language: English
Page Count: 40
Paperback Publication Date: March 1, 2016
Rights: All Rights Available
11 reviews for Choose Your Days
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⭐ Kirkus Reviews
This is the kind of book that will stick with readers, a meditation that they may not understand now but that, if digested, could have magical results.
Publishers Weekly
Wallace’s language and imagery can be both playful and enigmatic—this is a story that challenges readers to think, rather than hitting them over the head with obvious messages and directives.
Booklist Online
Sparse in both concept and execution, this gentle tale prods readers to make mindful choices and focus on the things that truly matter.
Reading Style Guide
This is an enchanting picture book with absolutely delightful illustrations. … It would be an excellent gift for someone dealing with a personal crisis, surviving a loss, or starting a new chapter in life.
Darlene Beck Jacobson blog
It is a tender and hopeful picture book for adults as well as children. … Anyone who fears death will find the peaceful and thoughtful message a welcome one.
BookDragon by the Smithsonian
Choose Your Days is so many good and meaningful things. But most of all, it’s a gift.
School Library Journal
A whimsical, philosophical selection.
Midwest Book Review
The ending of Corky’s beautiful story comes in spare, poetic words and expressive, sensitive paintings that evoke the lobe of beauty and the transitory nature of life. Together paintings and poetic text tells a mystic tale that is unforgettable.
Foreword Reviews
Choose Your Days is a story about finding wonderment and joy. … Though simply written, the book is powerful. The illustrations are beautiful and tell a far more complete story than the words alone.
Holly, bookseller at Elliot Bay Book Company
Titles like this that remind me what a miraculous gift books are; to all of us. Choose Your Days is an absolute treasure.
Connie Griffin, bookseller at Bookworks, Albuquerque
Choose Your Days is a picture book about living and about passing over. The illustrations alone bring smiles and tears. With the words it is a breath taking book experience that lends perspective to the day and becomes mystically comforting as the calendar progresses. It is truly unforgettable because the message is universal and we each are unique.