Chris Burkard

The illustrations are beautiful. I love how the early illustrations are like looking at the ground and the later illustrations are huge, taking up both pages.
The story is nice about finding happiness by taking a moment to truly look around.

I gave 5 stars, but one small annoyance is that the author uses "he" for the boy immediately after the earth speaks. This is both grammatically incorrect and causes a moment of confusion, so when I'm reading I convert the first pronoun of the sentence into "the boy". This happens on every journey step.

Example: "Then go to the cliffs, where the water is always flowing," said the Earth.
So he waded and he wandered until he left the waves behind.

The font is in all caps. I don't mind this, but some might find this annoying too.… (more)