Written by: Mary Murphy.

Illustrated by: Zhu Cheng Liang.

A little girl observes, one by one, the things that give her pleasure — the apricot jam on her toast, the light-up shoes that make her feet bounce, the sparkling river, the pencil whose color comes out like a ribbon. But even after the jar becomes empty, and the shoes grow too small, and the pencil is all used up, one thing will never change. In a tenderly imagined story, Mary Murphy celebrates the intimacy of the bond between mother and child, while Zhu Cheng-Liang’s wonderfully inviting artwork brings the day-to-day details to life. (From GoodReads.)

Credit: Shamekia LaShonda (Storytime Solidarity member).