Wrapping up Week 22 of WFH with yet another shot of this very photogenic book. Children will love artist Holly Carr’s stunning silk paintings (swipe to see the actual size of one of these paintings — photographed while it was still a work-in-progress) of forest animals in the dark and in light, and it is Holly’s hope that they will, like her then 5-year-old son who first inspired this project, learn to let go of their fears and anxieties. 🌳🌲🌳 The Way Through The Woods By Rudyard Kipling 🍃 THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods. . Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late, When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools Where the otter whistles his mate, (They fear not men in the woods, Because they see so few.) You will hear the beat of a horse's feet, And the swish of a skirt in the dew, Steadily cantering through The misty solitudes, As though they perfectly knew The old lost road through the woods. But there is no road through the woods. ~~~~~ 🔺LIGHT IN THE FOREST by Holly Carr is available for preorder through our link above. Use code LITF123 for free shipping (North America only) until September 30 2020. . . . #newbook#newbookalert#lightintheforest#hollycarr#art#paintings#silkpaintings#artist#silkartist#childrensbooks#picturebook#kidlit#kidlitartist#author#authorsofinstagram#fears#anxieties#wellbeing#mentalwellbeing#poetry#poem#rudyardkipling#librarybook#bookcover#bookcoverart#bookcoverdesign#bookstagram#bookworm#bibliophile (at Oakville, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD3lJefgYti/?igshid=1c3ou96ayt06f