A young reader's introduction to small everyday miracles follows the story of Sarah, who disbelieves her grandfather's statement that they can see angels, until he points out such items as the glow of ripe raspberries and a baby rabbit eating grass.
Are angels around? Sarah doesn't think so, at least not during an ordinary day. But then Grandpa points out the sun on the patchwork quilt and the jewels in his garden--raspberries and butterflies and marigolds--and the circus going on right outside her window, where a squirrel is walking a tightrope of telephone wire. So when Sarah sees a hummingbird, "wings quickening faster than the eye can see, / hovered like grace, between the earth and sky," she realizes perhaps she has seen an everyday angel after all. This melding of story, delicate poetry, and soft, shimmering art adds up to more than just a mood piece. Children will be enchanted, just as Sarah is, by the magic she finds everywhere, and, with some gentle prodding, may start to look around for their own everyday angels.