By Azul López
Translated from the Spanish by Shook
Published by Transit Children's Editions
Mom's Review
If ever there was a book telling us to get our faces out of our phones, without any mention of phones, this is it. A beautiful tribute to the glory of nature, Look Up celebrates simply existing on the Earth. An unnamed man simply looks up. He finds beauty in the sky until the trudging drudgery around him finally overwhelms him. After some time - the story declines to indicate just how long - he finds a hole in the ground, whence fly thousands of birds who draw his eye high again. And everyone else's eyes! Nature will not be ignored, and her mystery and magic overcomes the barriers we construct. Look Up is inspired by the true natural phenomenon of thousands of swallows emerging annually from the Sotano de las Golondrinas in the Huasteca region of Mexico.
And if you need more reason to engage with nature instead of your phone: Associations Between Nature Exposure and Health article accessible through PubMed database.
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