When You Have to Wait - Conklin, Melanie
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A mindful, gentle picture book about patience and learning to find beauty in the act of waiting. Sometimes, you have to wait. For the line at the public pool on a hot summer day. For mom to come home after being away. For your legs to grow just a bit longer to ride a new big kid bike. The seconds drag on... each one feels like forever. Why can't you have it now? But while you wait, you might notice things: a possible new friend who is also in line, why homecoming hugs are extra special, and how beautiful the world is when you're not racing by. Sometimes, when you have to wait, you find the good in the moments between now and later.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A mindful, gentle picture book about patience and learning to find beauty in the act of waiting. Sometimes, you have to wait. For the line at the public pool on a hot summer day. For mom to come home after being away. For your legs to grow just a bit longer to ride a new big kid bike. The seconds drag on... each one feels like forever. Why can't you have it now? But while you wait, you might notice things: a possible new friend who is also in line, why homecoming hugs are extra special, and how beautiful the world is when you're not racing by. Sometimes, when you have to wait, you find the good in the moments between now and later.
Autorenporträt
Melanie Conklin grew up in North Carolina and worked as a product designer before she began her writing career. Her debut middle grade novel, Counting Thyme, is a Nerdy Book Award winner, a Bank Street Best Children's Book, winner of the International Literacy Association Teacher' Choice Award, and a finalist for the Missouri Mark Twain Book Award, the Iowa Children's Choice Award, the Illinois Bluestem Award, and the Arkansas Charlie May Simon Award. She is also the author of middle grade novels Every Missing Piece (Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee), A Perfect Mistake (Utah CLAU Beehive Book Award Nominee, South Carolina Book Award), the forthcoming Crushed (2024), and her debut picture book, When You Have to Wait. When she's not writing, Melanie spends her time doodling and dreaming up new ways to be creative. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.