URGENT message: WE ARE ALL ME: a lyrical picture book, bursting with colors

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 at 7PM
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A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event
Society of Illustrators​
128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065

"Essentially, it falls into the same category of The Same Stuff As Stars, but goes granular. It may even contain the most beautiful rendering of DNA I’ve ever seen in a picture book. Prepare to have your little mind blown (and in shockingly few words too)."
–Elizabeth Bird, A Fuse 8 Production
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"The language is poetic but accessible...a worthwhile purchase for libraries seeking additional beginning readers."
–School Library Journal

"Design king Crane's We Are All Me is deceptively simple. Another Level One book, there's just a few words of text on each page. However, the book is conceptually complex, as Jordan asks the reader to shift their perspective multiple times. He starts out exploring our relationship with the environment as the pages bleed into each other in terms of color.

Air, water and earth flow into one another as smoothly as Crane's crisp color patterns. There's just a joyous rhythm to this comic, both in terms of visuals and words, like the lines "and bone and meat/and beat beat beat". Flipping over to the heart with the last line, there's an explosion of pink, orange, and blue on the page as Crane went in the opposite direction, going smaller and smaller until he reaches the subatomic level.

Crane goes beyond that to make some interesting claims regarding sentience arising at that level and that all of it (and us) are connected. Heady stuff, but Crane clearly respects his audience enough to think them capable of understanding it conceptual. Thanks to his bold and dynamic use of color, he's right to think so."
–Rob Clough

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 at 2:30pm
Location: Picture Book Stage presenting We Are All Me​

Authors will read, draw and perform to bring beloved books to life at the Picture Book Stage at MetroTech Commons. Be sure to head over to see: Duo Caldecott Medalists Dan Santat and Minh Lê, Tad Hills, the New York Times best-selling author of Duck & Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo!, and debut author and illustrator Andrea Tsurumi presenting Accident! Don’t miss Ame Dyckman and Scott Magoon (Misunderstood Shark), Jessica Love (Julián Is a Mermaid), Isabel Roxas and Alexandra Penfold (The Littlest Viking), Jordan Crane (We Are All Me), David Ezra Stein (Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise). All authors and illustrators will sign books after each presentation with books sold by Bank Street.