Sometimes the best adventure is the one right outside your window.
Benny is eight years old, clever as can be, and absolutely certain that everything worth seeing lives on a glowing screen. Tap. Swipe. Scroll away. He carries his tablet here, he carries it there — and he never once looks up.
Then one warm July afternoon: BUMP! CRACK! The screen goes dark.
What follows is one ordinary, extraordinary day. With his faithful dog Scout at his heels, Benny discovers feather-thin cirrus clouds and cotton-castle cumulus. A cardinal blazing red on a branch. A robin yanking up its lunch. Rainbows thrown across the grass by a church window. Hundred-year-old wisteria tumbling over a fence like a purple waterfall. Dandelion wishes drifting on the breeze. And when night falls, the Big Dipper, an owl calling from the woods, and a shooting star.
Look up, look around! Little miracles abound!
Told in warm, bouncing rhyme with a refrain young readers will chant along to, Look Up, Look Around! is a gentle invitation to close the screen and open your eyes. It’s a story about resilience, too — because sometimes life knocks you down, and something better is waiting on the other side.
Inside you’ll also find:
- A hidden-dog hunt — Scout is tucked into every single page. Can your reader find him all?
- A “What made you look up today?” checklist to take outside
Perfect for read-aloud at bedtime, for classrooms and homeschool nature units, and for any grown-up who’s ever wished a child would put the tablet down for an hour.
Ages 4–8.
From T. L. Clause, author of Goodnight LoveBug, Stockbroker in the Tree, and Mud to Magic: A True Story of Becoming.
