Named to Kirkus Best 100 Picture Books of 2021 and 9 Best Picture Books Celebrating Community

From the author of Most People, here is a timely reminder of the wonders around us.

This is a book about paying attention to what’s around us. About celebrating a wonderful moment. About enjoying the extraordinary unfoldings of an ordinary day. Moving from morning to night, the narrator becomes by turns a boy or girl of ever-changing ethnicity and ability, inhabiting city, country, or suburb. They are all children everywhere, opening their eyes to the gift of time.

Michael Leannah was a teacher in elementary schools for more than 30 years and is the author of an instruction manual for teachers, We Think with Ink. His children’s fiction has been published in Highlights for Children, Ladybug, and other magazines. Author of MOST PEOPLE. A resident of Wisconsin, where he is a father and proud grandfather.

Megan Elizabeth Baratta illustrates with pencil, ink, and watercolor, sometimes using Procreate for digital enhancements. She loves rendering scenes of ordinary life and showing their quiet beauty. Her clients include Two Leaves + a Bud, Wild Birds Unlimited, Uppercase Magazine, and others. Inspired by the natural world, Miyazaki films, and all things British, Megan lives in upstate New York.

Most Days