On Saturday I read this opinion piece by Julia Baird. She based her piece on a poem by the late US poet Andrea Gibson who penned a Substack filled with the things they loved.
Julia decided to make her own list - she spent ten minutes and came up with a huge variety of "life's loves" many of which are sure to make you nod or smile. When I read her list of over 60 'loves', I immediately related many of them to favourite children's picture books - as you will know Picture Books are the "not so little" things I love. So here are some of the loves from Julia's list (she did have lots more) with my book additions:
I love the first sip of hot tea.
beautiful, a dolphin, or newborn, constellation or baby bird.
I love the ridiculous racket cockatoos make.
I love the way children paint.
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I love grandfathers who keep lollies in their pockets ...
I love sunrises and sunsets.
I love hope.
I love knitters of beanies and bears.
I love red autumn leaves.
Fletcher and the falling leaves
I love spiders that can spin webs as strong as steel from tiny frames.
I love that trees talk to each other.
I love that bees communicate through two kinds of dance ...
I love the sound of whale song.
I love the weird, flabby ugliness of blob fish.
Blob The Ugliest animal in the World
I love newspaper letter writers
Of course, for every book I have put there are potentially so many more but as Julia suggested I only spent a few minutes thinking and these were the first titles I thought of. I was not able to share the link to the piece by Julia Baird because you need a newspaper subscription.
For my own list I love picture books; I love lighthouses; I love puffins; I love pelicans; I love to visit small islands; and of course, visiting a library or a bookshop is utterly and completely my happy place.
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