All Things Bright and Beautiful

Written in 1848, this beloved hymn celebrating the wonders of creation, is given new life in Anna Vojtech’s glowing interpretation. Lushly detailed paintings follow two children and their frisky pup through a bucolic landscape of meadows, hills, rivers, streams and woods. Throughout the seasons, the youngsters explore and enjoy the wealth of treasures to be found– things bright and beautiful, great and small, wise and wonderful, the glory of it all. AGES: 3 – 7 years AUTHOR: Cecil Frances Alexander was born in Ireland. She began writing poetry as a child and wrote nearly 400 hymns. She wrote All things Bright and Beautiful, one of her most popular, to help explain to children the opening words of the Apostles’ Creed, a Christian statement of belief. The wife of an archbishop, she was known to be a generous woman who cared for the poor and opened a school for the deaf with her sister.