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The world is wide awake - are you? Stunning photos and poetic text usher readers into the early moments of life all around them.. Wake up! Come out and explore all the new creatures being born - just-hatched birds in the trees, tadpoles in the pond, a baby fawn in the woods. In their latest collaboration, poet Helen Frost and photographer Rick Lieder, the creators of Step Gently Out, Sweep Up the Sun, and Among a Thousand Fireflies, invite readers to wake up, open their eyes, and see the awe-inspiring array of new life just outside their door.
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Painter and photographer Rick Lieder's art has appeared on award-winning novels ranging from mysteries and science fiction, to books based on the X-Files TV series and Newbery Award-winning books for children.His filmmaking was featured in the PBS NOVA documentary "CREATURES OF LIGHT", produced by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TELEVISION, in spring 2016His nature photography centers on ordinary backyard wildlife, capturing the unique qualities of light interacting with the natural world, including luminous photographs of honey bees and small birds in flight, glowing fireflies mating and hovering over twilight fields, mosquitoes with a belly full of blood, and new-born praying mantis nymphs emerging from their egg cases.Rick's nature picture books with award-winning novelist and poet Helen Frost are published by Candlewick Press, including: * STEP GENTLY OUT in 2012, now in its 9th printing, with a paperback edition. * SWEEP UP THE SUN, featuring birds in flight, published 2015. * AMONG A THOUSAND FIREFLIES a book on fireflies in 2016. * WAKE UP!, a book on new life published in 2017. * HELLO, I'M HERE!, a Sandhill crane family portrait in Spring 2019.Clients include National Geographic Television, PBS NOVA, Natural History Magazine, Orion Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Kids: Discover, Tamron, DaimlerChrysler, HarperCollins, Random House, Penguin Publishing, Simon & Shuster and Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
