The Wonderful Things You Will Be

Name: The Wonderful Things You Will Be
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Emily Winfield Martin
ISBN: 9780593294680

Author: Emily Winfield Martin

Narrator: Ari Meyers

Unabridged: 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 05/05/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Bedtime Stories

Synopsis

The New York Times bestseller that celebrates the dreams, acceptance, and love that parents have for their children . . . now and forever!

From brave and bold to creative and clever, Emily Winfield Martin's rhythmic rhyme expresses all the loving things that parents think of when they look at their children.

This is an audiobook grown-ups will love sharing over and over with kids--both young and old.

The Wonderful Things You Will Be has a loving and truthful message that will endure for lifetimes and makes a great gift for any occasion, but a special stand-out for baby showers, birthdays, Easter, and graduation.

About The Author

EMILY WINFIELD MARTIN sketches, paints, and stitches to create imaginary worlds and characters. She is the author/illustrator of The Black Apple's Paper Doll Primer. Her store, The Black Apple, has been featured in national publications and on TV shows, including the New York Times and The Martha Stewart Show. Emily lives among the giant fir trees of Portland, Oregon, with her fellow adventurer, Josiah, and their cat Miette. Visit her online at BlackApple.typepad.com or Etsy.com/shop/theblackapple.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on July 19, 2022

Open this book with some little people you love and dream a little dream. What wonderful things are in the future? Whimsical and calming, colorful illustrations spark the imagination. Little details like a tiny mouse band opposite a kid's band called "The Missing Teeth" will be noted over and over w......more

Goodreads review by Scottsdale Public Library on June 14, 2024

If you are not yet familiar with Emily Winfield Martin’s books or illustrations, you should become so. Filled with a whimsical and vintage-ethereal artistic style (if that’s not a style, it should be), Martin creates a love letter to the child reader and to the possibilities he or she will become. –......more

Goodreads review by Maxwell on January 27, 2018

Daddy read this book to me, and we were both left feeling a little meh about this book. It was just so-so. I expected a lot more from a book that’s been on the New York Times Bestselling Children’s Picture Book List for 116 weeks (yes over two years!!!!) Though I really did like the page with the re......more

Goodreads review by Laura on April 09, 2018

Emily Martin's illustrations are absolutely gorgeous. I find them full of nostalgia that express a classic and innocent feel to her stories.......more

Goodreads review by rania ★ on August 22, 2024

i read this to my sister literally twice a bit after she was born but i distinctly just remember thinking it was so lovely......more

Quotes

“Her children are so serious… and so unflappable… that they convey not just hope for the future, but a sense of manifest destiny.” — Publishers Weekly starred review

“Sweet but not saccharine and singsong but not forced, Martin's text is one that will invite rereadings as it affirms parental wishes for children while admirably keeping child readers at its heart.”
—Kirkus starred review