Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder by Erin Frankel and Jasu Hu
Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder by Erin Frankel and Jasu Hu
Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder by Erin Frankel and Jasu Hu
Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder by Erin Frankel and Jasu Hu

Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder by Erin Frankel and Jasu Hu

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Ages: 7–10 years

This lyrical picture book biography of beloved American poet Mary Oliver shows young readers ages 7 - 10 how her love of nature and sense of wonder inspired her art.

Young Mary Oliver was enthralled by nature. In the forest, she wondered about the birds and the lilies and the water in the stream—about all the things that cannot speak yet somehow spoke to Mary. She wondered, too, about poetry, about how words pieced together filled her with light and how some poems felt like they were written just for her. How could this be?

Author Erin Frankel shows how Mary Oliver held on to that sense of wonder from her childhood, channeling it into some of the most beloved poems of the past hundred years. Illustrator Jasu Hu’s lush nature scenes beautifully complement Frankel’s soulful writing about the creative process. Together text and art honor Mary Oliver and her astonishing poetry.

Erin Frankel is a children’s book author. She loves telling stories of empathy and wonder. Her picture books include A Plate of Hope, Remembering Barkley, and the Weird! series. Erin enjoys visiting schools to talk to students about stories and kindness. She lives with her family in Pittsburgh, where she writes, teaches, and hopes.

Born in Hunan, China, Jasu Hu has worked as an illustrator in China for 6 years while studying Visual Communication at Tsinghua University (Beijing). After finishing her MFA in Illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art (USA), she moved to NYC, started freelancing illustration projects in the U.S, mainly for editorials, advertisings and publications. She won the New Talent of AOI Illustration Award in 2014, and two medals of Award of Excellence by Communication Arts, The Best Illustrations of 2016 - 2019 by The Washington Post. "The Obama Legacy" project she illustrated for The Washington Post has won a national Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and on book covers, posters, apps, among other places. Her MTA poster "Moonlight Moment" has been displaying on subway platforms throughout the New York subway stations and on subway cars and buses during 2018 - 2019.

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