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Life – A Book To Touch the Soul

June 1, 2025 by Sarah Laucks

Sometimes a book touches your soul. This is one of those books. A beautiful picture book to share with your little ones and emerging readers. While also being a wonderful reading experience for you as a parent.

Life written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Brendan Wetzel
Category: Book Reviews, Emerging Readers, Little Ones, Picture Books, PreschoolersTag: Beach Lane Books, Brendan Wenzel, Cynthia Rylant

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Sometimes a book touches your soul. This is one of those books. A beautiful picture book to share with your little ones and emerging readers. While also being a wonderful reading experience for you as a parent.

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Why Read this Book

  1. Sometimes you want to have conversations with children about sadness or feeling blue. At those times it can really help to have a book to read that touches on those topics. This book is a perfect choice. It’s also very beautiful and a good book to read-aloud at any time.
  2. The author and illustrator skillfully touch on the sadder feelings in life – and then they use words and illustrations to bring you and your children back to good things in life.
  3. This book is also useful for times when your kids hear news from the world around them that just doesn’t sound good. Bad news is difficult for little ears to hear. In this book they’ll be reminded of many of the good things in life – a good balance to negative news.

Book Facts

This book is beautiful and moving. With sincere thanks to those who made it possible:

  • Author: Cynthia Rylant
  • Illustrator: Brendan Wenzel
  • Copyright: 2017
  • Publisher: Beach Lane Books

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Visit Bookshop online, purchase the beautiful hardback edition (perfect for a gift), and choose a bookstore when you checkout to benefit from your purchase. That bookstore will receive the full profit from your Bookshop.org purchases. All the details about how it works can be found here. You can even choose a bookstore in your own community.

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