A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader The Field Guide Tersa Sphinx (Xylophanes tersa)

Tersa Sphinx (Xylophanes tersa)

Pub Date: August 30

full-color images show the wildflowers of western North America close-up and in their natural habitats

they have found a welcoming audience among adults as well

A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader The Field Guide Tersa Sphinx (Xylophanes tersa)A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year"An embarrassment of riches." The New York TimesIn these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture makers writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or