![]() When the tide goes out, it exposes these wide mud flats, and you can watch little shorebirds search for organisms in the seaweed beds. The original idea came from this rock that sits on this beautiful tidal inlet at the high-tide mark. The book was written at my in-laws’ house on the coast of northern Maine. I also really like the idea of a series or a collection of books that bounce off each other, play with each other, and allow readers to begin a conversation. I think when I finished They All Saw a Cat, I knew that I wasn’t done exploring that space. The idea of point of view and perspective has fascinated me for so long. Wenzel spoke with PW about the place that inspired the story, making picture books as a way of thinking through experience, and finding solace in nature.ĭid you have it in mind to keep looking at the theme of shifting perspectives, as you did in They All Saw a Cat? Though the water rises quietly around it, the stone remains unchanged, deep under the waves. The book’s repeating chorus (“…and it was as it was / where it was in the world”) presents a vision of a planet that endures. But Wenzel’s deeper concern is with time itself. A gull uses it to crack a clam otters gather on it a snail roams its surface. ![]() In the new story, a stone is seen through the experiences of the animals that live around it. ![]() The earlier work surveyed the ways different creatures view the same housecat. ![]() Brendan Wenzel’s A Stone Sat Still looks at some of the same themes as his 2016 Caldecott Honor book, They All Saw a Cat. ![]()
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