When You Were Born

by Dianna Hutts Aston

With poetic language and magnificent, deeply moving paintings, this beautiful book preserves the sense of awe inspired when a baby is born. When you were born you came quietly, and with eyes deep as an ocean you looked at me . . . A new baby is born - and as family, friends, and neighbors gather to share the joy, they emerge changed. Their world is redefined as they take a moment to remember the past, imagine the future, and marvel at the tiny miracle before them. In poetry as soothing as a lullaby, Dianna Hutts Aston evokes the sense of reverence that surrounds a newborn like enfolding arms. And in radiant, Chagall-like paintings, unlike any he's published before, Coretta Scott King Award?winning artist E. B. Lewis captures a feeling of wonder that will resonate with anyone who has gazed into the eyes of a newborn child.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763614386
• ISBN13: 9780763614386
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.8" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

an exquisite book

This book is the most eloquent and beautiful children's book on the birth of a new baby. What an amazing gift this would make for a new baby! We have read ours many times and everyone in our home treasures it.

A Great Birth Celebration!

What a wonderful gift to give someone who has just had a baby or to add to your family collection at the addition of a new member of the family. We bought it as a Christmas gift for our new baby girl. We look forward to sharing it with her as she grows over the next years.

This Book is very Touching

I think this book is really uniqe and wonderful. It bring out the feeling of each and every family member and has something everyone can relate to

Beautiful Story!

This one of the most beautifully written and illustrated picture books. It is a perfect gift for any new parents. Although I must warn that it is likely to make you cry!

beautiful book.. Dianna Aston is eloquent.

Dianna Aston has a way of taking those deep, overwhelming, and beautiful feelings that a person experiences when a child is born, and lays them out on the page with such delicate precision. I'm in Awe. Reading this book brought me back to that place of wonder. The words are magnified by E. B. Lewis's Illustrations. The soft pallet he chose, along with the graceful fluid movements of his brush, propels the story of pure love. Text and Illustration, both graceful and splendid. It is a treasure for the soul.