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Text and compilation
copyright 2015 by
Chronicle Books. All rights reserved. No part of this
book may be reproduced in any form
without written permission from
the publisher. constitute a continuation
of the copyright page. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data available. ISBN: 978-1-4521-3505-2 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-4521-5033-8 (epub2, mobi)
ISBN: 978-1-4521-5046-8 (epub3) Design by Mia Johnson
Cover illustration by Blanca Gmez Back cover illustrations by Jen Stark, Mr.
Boddingtons Studio, Jay Fleck, Ana
Bidart, Samantha Hahn, Annette Mangseth, Florence Boudet, Miss Peden,
Jamie Shelman, Catherina Trk, Irne Sneddon, TRACCIAMENTI Chronicle Books LLC
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Contents
They say its always darkest before the dawn.
They say that which does not kill you makes you stronger.
They say without the r a i n youd never see the r a i n b o w .Well, they say a lot of things, actually.
Heres what they dont say so much: That both rain and rainbows can make you happy if you let them. That to cheer yourself up, sometimes all you need to do is get out of yourself for a moment. Not chastise yourself for your poor attitude, but simply give yourselfor let someone else give youa gentle little nudge in the direction of gladness. Is the first half of this bookfull of rain and rainclouds and puddles and gray skiessad, and the second halffull of sunbeams and rainbows and unicornshappy? Come on, is anything that simple? No.
Maybe you are a person who loves the rain; maybe you jumped in puddles as a kid and sneaked out to dance in downpours as a teenager. Or maybe you see things a bit more classically; maybe to you, dark weather does suggest sorrow, and a rainbow our hope of relief from sorrow. It doesnt matter. Whatever your personal associations with these images, this book is saying the same basic two things to you. One: Nothing stays the same forever. Life is a progression.
There are good parts and bad parts, dreamy parts and silly parts, tragedies and healing, crummy days and fabulous days, rain and rainbows. Whatever is hurting us will someday come to an end. And that is a solace. But you know what? Whatever is making us gleeful will also someday come to an end. And thats a consolation of a different kindthe kind that reminds you to perk up and pay attention, to cherish both the sound of the rain on the roof and the arc of color in the sky that catches you utterly by surprise, because both will be gone before you know it. And, two: When someone creates something, that creation is a gift.
The artists whose work is featured in this book have made these images as gifts for you, whether they knew thats what they were doing or not. Its a common misconception that art has to be hard that the more people a work of art confuses or shuts out, the better it is. We say: Let the artist bring gladness to the viewer if thats what the artist wants to do. The viewer just has to be ready to receive the gift. Both the fruits of human creativity and the wonders of nature have this in common: we possess the astonishing ability to take them in through our senses and let them nourish our souls. Art can be the nudge we need to move away from the endless circling of our own thoughts, to move toward an outlook thats just a little bit brighter.
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