A Stone Sat Still

Description

A Stone Sat Still

Brendan Wenzel

(Chronicle Books)

Through the dark and the quietness, the loudness and the quiet, A Stone Sat Still. Then again, ‘it sat where it sat/ with the water, grass and dirt// and it was as it was/ where it was in the world’. 

It seems that both rough and smooth, yet green, red, purple and blue. What’s more, it might be a pebble or a hill or a feel or a smell. Then while it could be wild, the stone’s a place called home.

Brendan Wenzel creates books that demand to be lingered over and loved. Furthermore, his titles, including They All Saw a Cat, are curious, seeming to offer a philosophy so as to make us think about ourselves, our history and our place and time in the world. It seems this way with A Stone Sat Still,. We contemplate the infinity and effortless weightless  possibility of the stone’s existence. Then again the way this book is created, with its sparing text and repetition urges us to take it slowly. Thereafter we’ve deep, almost  three-dimensional, collage pictures with close ups and variations in perspective and size that are pitch perfect. It means that A Stone Sat Still is a book to read, share, take time over and gift also. What’s more, this picture book is recommended for readers alone and then for reading closely together, quietly, contemplatively.