What reaches everywhere and never tires? Pulling on feathers and galaxies alike? Holding the mighty Milky Way together? Gravity, of course!
Told in lyrical, riddling first-person narrative, Gravity boasts of its essential role in life as we know it–from the pulling of the ocean’s tides to the vastness of the stars in the sky.
I was thrilled to receive an ARC of Henry Herz’s new picture book I Am Gravity.
I Am Gravity follows in the footsteps of Herz’s acclaimed lyrical picture book, I Am Smoke.
The book is beautifully illustrated and I predict will be enjoyed immensely in classrooms by teachers and children embarking on their educational journey through the wonders of science. The back matter of this full color book includes information about the science of gravity and major historical discoveries.
Preorder your copy today for its release on April 16th.
About the Author and Illustrator
Henry Herz (San Diego, CA) authored ten picture books. His children’s short stories have been published in Highlights for Children, Ladybug Magazine, and in anthologies for Albert Whitman & Co. and Blackstone Publishing. Henry also writes adult science fiction and fantasy short stories. He holds a BS in Engineering from Cornell, an MS in Engineering from George Washington University, and an MA in Political Science from Georgetown.
Merce López graduated from Llotja Art School in Barcelona and has illustrated for design, theater, and film as well as twenty children’s books for Spanish and international book publishers. Her 2019 title Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons by Laura Purdie Salas received multiple starred reviews and was named a Center for Children’s Books Gryphon Honor Book, an NCTE Notable Poetry Book, a Kirkus Best Picture Book, and a Parents Magazine Best Kids’ Book, among other accolades. In a starred review of I Am Smoke (Tilbury House, 2021), Kirkus called her illustrations “Lustrous” and “Exquisitely beautiful.” In his 100 Scope Notes column for School Library Journal, Travis Jonker called I Am Smoke “One of the most astonishingly unconventional children’s books of 2021. Here’s to children’s books that expand our assumptions of what a children’s book can be.”
Henry also has a story in the charity anthology Catstruck!
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