Book Review Of “Time Is a Flower”

Writer artist Julie Morstad investigates the mind boggling and theoretical idea of time in Time Is a Flower, an intriguing picture book. She moves the most traditional definition first: “Time is the tock tick tock of the clock and numbers and words on a schedule.” But Morstad is more intrigued by the confounding and frequently developing manners by which kids experience time. “Be that as it may, what else is time?” she asks perusers straightforwardly.

Replies to this inquiry come to striking life through similitudes that feature nature and its fundamental laws. Time is a seed that turns into a bloom, then, at that point the blossom starts to blur and its petals tumble off “individually, or at the same time!” Time is likewise a developing tree, a fragile web painstakingly created by an “rich insect” and a butterfly that was once a caterpillar. It’s a turning planet that brings night for one kid however day for another. The book additionally investigates other transient delights and disappointments, like our developing and changing countenances and bodies, the force of recollections and photos, the rhythms of music and dance, and calm minutes went through with individuals we love.

Morstad’s fresh, fine-lined representations pass on a quieted and wondrous tone. Her spreads are cleaned up and extensive, with grayscale pencil drawings of youngsters and shadings that fly off the page. The book’s eminently huge trim size and liberal 56-page length are fitting: Time is a huge thought that contains hoards.

Close to the furthest limit of the book, Morstad momentarily offers two conversation starters that have befuddled physicists for centuries: “Is time a line? Or then again perhaps a circle?” Rather than wandering a reply, her entertaining goal is an update that occasionally life’s prompt delights trump its unanswerable supernatural difficulties.