The Weaver

By Thacher Hurd, Illustrated by Elisa Kleven  (Farrar Straus Giroux ~ in 2010)

As the morning sun rises, a girl starts her weaving work.  All her thoughts of creatures on our planets and love feeling to them are weaved together with shinning thread to produce a beautiful cloth. At the end of the day, the girl takes off her special cloth from the loom and she starts dancing with it all over the earth. The weaver spreads the extraordinary cloth over the earth to keep us warm and protect through the night.

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朝日と共に、少女が地球を眺めながら、織物を織り始めた。地球に見える様々な様子を、見事な色彩で織り込んでゆく。地球にいる人々の、愛情や思いやり、喜びや幸せを、せっせと織り込んでゆく。夕方になって出来上がった布を織機からはずして、少女は踊りながら地球を飛び回る。幻想的でシルクのような柔らかな動きに乗って、暖かな愛で地球を包むような絵本。