Chronicle Books | 978-1797211664

What’s on the other side of a moment? A feeling? A day?

“On the other side of the screen, there is a school. On the other side of a window, there is a neighbor…

On the other side of a storm, there is a rainbow.”

It’s been just under a year since the world closed down and we began to watch the outside from the inside of our homes, spending our working hours zooming from behind the screens of our computers.

What will remain of these many months of separation? Hopefully, the reminder that we were in this together. That a story has a beginning AND an end.

We’re not quite there yet, but the end is coming. As the author, Theresa Trinder, writes in her note on the last page of THERE IS A RAINBOW, (illustrated by Grant Snider) “We will see each other on the other side. Yes, there are sad goodbyes. But there will be joyous reunions. And even though we can’t reach out and touch one another right now, we can see one another – truly see one another – if we try.”

She continues: “It comforts me to think of families reading this book a year – or many years – from now and to hope they’re looking back on this time from a place that is safer, happier, more generous and more just.”

Yes, please. (And don’t those beautiful illustrations, rendered in colored pencil lift your spirits? They do mine. )

This uplifting picture book reminds us that it won’t always be as it has been. There *is* hope, on the other side…