{"id":14030,"date":"2023-07-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14030"},"modified":"2023-07-10T07:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:14:20","slug":"in-the-sky-in-the-air-i-am-smoke-by-henry-herz-and-merce-lopez-picturebook-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14030","title":{"rendered":"In the sky, in the air, I AM SMOKE, by Henry Herz and Merc\u00e8 L\u00f3pez (Picturebook review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rising from flames,
Controlled or untamed –
we see and smell smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This picturebook ably shows the many ways that people use smoke: to preserve foods, to banish pests, in religious ceremonies, for healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, smoke narrates its own story, saying “I lack a mouth, but I can speak” as it reminds us that smoke signals were used in China as well as by Native Americans of the Plains and Southwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smoke explains that it is part of a cycle – it adds its water vapor to rain<\/a>, its carbon dioxide nourishes leaves that can transform smoke into wood, which someday may again become smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the earth-toned artwork, the artist held paper over smoky candles, then added details with watercolors and digital enhancements – another way to use smoke!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fascinating back notes tell more about each page-spread’s short, lyrical text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your happiest memory of smoke?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: I Am Smoke \/ Henry Herz; illustrated by Merce Lopez. Tilbury House Publishers, 2021. [author site<\/a>] [illustrator site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rising from flames, Controlled or untamed – we see and smell smoke. This picturebook ably shows the many ways that people use smoke: to preserve foods, to banish pests, in religious ceremonies, for healing. Interestingly, smoke narrates its own story, saying “I lack a mouth, but I can speak” as it reminds us that smoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[124,7,100,182,27,63,85,111,156,35,8,263],"class_list":["post-14030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","tag-art","tag-beliefs","tag-china","tag-cooking","tag-medical","tag-native-americans","tag-nature","tag-non-us-artist","tag-picturebook","tag-surprises","tag-us-author","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14100,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030\/revisions\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}