![]() ![]() Review courtesy of Content Bookstoreģ14 Division Street S. ![]() I didn’t want it to end and know I will read it again and again. This book enraptures with its own astonishments and reveries while showing us how to be enraptured, how to revere. Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders is as good and generous a teacher as one could ever ask for. How to be in love with this, our beloved earth. ![]() World of Wonders is like Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights (a Content bookseller favorite from last year) for the natural world. How to be in stupefied and devotional love to the wonders of this earth. I learned so much reading this book and found such delight in it that I read parts of it aloud to friends. She writes about growing up, marriage, motherhood and how the natural world has grounded her no matter what stage of life she’s in. They span in time from her childhood to the present and crisscross the world from Ohio to India. ![]() Aimee’s essays cover creatures from fireflies to flamingos and plants from pretty to putrid. Her biggest accomplishment has been maintaining her sanity while working on a. Filled with short, beautifully written essays about the natural world and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, World of Wonders is the book you need to read right now! I was awestruck at Aimee’s wonderful way with words and the wonders she reveals throughout this book about the natural world. Megan Kipper has a passion for social justice and a weakness for graphic novels. ![]()
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