Rain

Haiku is a small but perfect way to capture life in words, and Anders Holmer is a master of both haiku and haiku illustrations. In just a few syllables, Holmer uses haiku to share both the hope of life and its inevitable destruction.

Beneath ashes are
seeds for a new forest that
might burn someday too.

Holmer's haiku captures the deep truths to be found in paradox and in the interrelatedness of life.

The horse dreams of oats
while he is plowing the field—
crows carry off seeds.

The illustrations take the reader quickly and quietly into little vignettes of life all over the world.

This is a beautiful and magical book.