DAWN - Uri Shulevitz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the name of daybreak 

and the eyelids of morning 

and the wayfaring moon 

and the night when it departs

 

- Diane Ackerman 

poem-prayer for presence

 

 

 

 

Dawn: A Vintage Watercolor Serenade to the World Becoming Conscious of Itself

In praise of the natural optimism of daybreak

 

 

 

 

Uri Shulevitz (Hebrew: אורי שולביץ‎; born February 27, 1935) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 1969 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, a Russian fairy tale retold by Arthur Ransome in 1916.

 

 

https://www.urishulevitz.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Shulevitz

https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/06/uri-shulevitz-dawn/?mc_cid=6e8428c263&mc_eid=8ab1ee3621