You're Strong With Me

By Chitra Soundar and Poonam Mistry

A mother giraffe and her young calf explore the African savanna.

The rain clouds are long gone and the dry season scorches the land. Everything is new for the baby giraffe. As she bounds ahead and lags behind, her mother patiently explains the ways of the grasslands. And until she grows a little taller, older, and wiser, her mother reminds her: “You’re strong with me.”

From the makers of award-winning You're Safe With Me and Kirkus Best Picture Book of the Year, You're Snug With Me.

“Reassuring and visually stunning”—Youth Services Book Review

“Unique and unreservedly recommended”—Midwest Book Review

“Full of stunning illustrations, it is a wonderfully reassuring story, perfect for sharing”—North Somerset Teachers' Book Award

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing
• Release date: Jun 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781913747022

Chitra Soundar

Chitra Soundar is originally from India, where as a child she feasted on folktales and stories from Hindu mythology. She is the author of the picture book Pattan’s Pumpkin: A Traditional Flood Story from Southern India, illustrated by Frané Lessac. She currently lives in London.

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[whisper1_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Previously I read You're Strong With Me by the team of Soundor and Mistry this is yet another lovely, stunningly illustrated book by Poonman Mistry with beautiful rich text of Soundor.This is a tale of a baby giraffe and her loving mama. There is so much to be afraid of in the African savannah. A baby giraffe has a short period of time to get up from the ground where it was dropped from it's mother. The lion's await to snatch the baby.. There is smoke, and the fear of a new experience of an ox pecker bird who flies suddenly landing on the back of the baby giraffe.Through it all, the mama giraffe encourages the baby to stay still, that the bird that may hurt, this will help your skin grow stronger and thicker and thus it will no longer hurt. And then there is the tart scary smell of smoke coming from the edge of the area where the baby and mama are. Again, the mother teaches the baby that the fire is licking and eating the dry grass, creating opportunity for new grass to pull through. The mama tells her baby she is aware of the sting to the throat, but soon the smoke will be replaced by refreshing rain. "You are Strong With Me." the mother repeatedly tells her baby. "And, soon, as your legs grow taller, it will be more safe and enable you to run faster."The area where the baby is born is filled with challenges and dangers. And through this beautiful illustration, the artists pull the reader in to the world of mama and baby as together they must over come the danger in order to survive.Lush, incredible, stunning the art work of the illustrations are like non others. The books by the team of these two talented people invite the reader to observe both the dangers and the beauty of the early life and existence of the baby who cannot survive without a mother to teach her, as quickly the baby must learn or will perish.Thank you to this team who invite adults and children to understand both he danger and beauty of nature.Five Stars