To Every Thing There Is a Season: Verses From Ecclesiastes

I loved reading through this book of verse from ecclesiastes as the illustrations brought in a unique perspective for a popular verse. The beautiful illustrations from around the world on each line of contrast pulled me in to keep going through to see how else the words would be painted. The verses match beautifully with the illustrations as you could see exactly what was being spoken in the various cultural styles depicted. What truly made this book magnificent is the section in the back about the illustrations themselves. It shares historical and cultural information regarding each illustration for the reader to further understand how the cultural illustration helped to depict the verse it was paired with.

An instant classic with many layers of meaning, this is a favorite book of mine by Leo & Diane Dillon. This is a story, written in paradoxes, about the changes that life undergoes on earth. The illustrations are very detailed and captivating that are just as diverse as the makeup of mankind. The illustrations include works from every part of the planet earth. There are works from Ireland, Eygypt, Europe, Africa, Thailand, and other nations. I believe that young and old readers will find something to admire about this book. This book was absolutely extraordinary.

I would use book for grades 3rd-5th grade as an interactive read-aloud because it has beautiful illustrations that I feel all students should see. These grades are appropriate for teaching poetry and culture that are shown in this book. By using this book as an interactive read-aloud I can have students use their background knowledge to make predictions, students can use the illustrations to infer and they can use key-details in the book to understand the ancient culture and poetry.

An absolutely glorious book. Incredible illustrations from immensely different styles of art from all over the world. Worth buying, keeping and reading to children for centuries to come.

This book is derived from a chapter in the Bible, Ecclesiastes and it is about how there is a time for every thing in this world. Throughout the book it describes how there are times for things that are opposite. Such as "there is a time for love and a time for hate" and "there is a time for peace and a time for war." This is a book I would not usually read for fun or on my own, but I really enjoyed the book. I really enjoyed the flow of it, the illustrations and the words that it used. Overall, it was a simple poetry book, but one that was very insightful.

This is a really beautiful book. The text is from Ecclesiastes, chapter 3 (KJV) and the pictures that go with each verse are in a different art style from cultures around the world. At the end of the book is an explanation of the art styles, for those who want more information.

Christians, be aware that the people's depicted by the illustrations done in the style of their traditions are not necessarily Christian themselves. This is not work for amateur cultural anthropologists, or for evangelicals. It is an homage to the universality of the human experience, as evoked by many kinds of art, through the lens of one piece of text from one of the more widely known religions.

It worked very well for this atheistic amateur art historian.

(And to clarify, do *not* miss the note in the back! :)

(B. in Children's Books listed this and it sounds so lovely I'm going to see if I can find it again.)