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Visiting You : A Journey of Love - Rebecka Sharpe Shelberg

Visiting You

A Journey of Love

By: Rebecka Sharpe Shelberg, Andrea Edmonds (Illustrator)

Hardcover | 19 February 2018

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A heart-warming celebration of the power of love,and how it's our similarities, not our differences, that matter most.

Settingout to visit their loved one, a child curiously asks a fellow commuter, 'Whoare you going to visit?', and in answer to this simple question, the childlearns about the love and loss in the life of a stranger. A father who livesapart from his small daughter, a husband who has lost his wife, a granddaughterwho is forgotten by her grandfather, and a mother who fears for her son'srecovery. After each conversation, the child understands that the othercommuter has someone in their life that they love 'as much as I love you', andit is this understanding that allows the child to explore the most universal ofhuman experiences: the power of love in the many different forms that it cantake. Visiting You also explores asense of community. Under her mother's supervision, a young child reaches outand connects with the people around them; they're not scared of strangers, orpeople who might 'look' scary, or people who are different to them. Sometimes itcan take conscious decision and determination to look past outward appearances. Visiting You encourages us to findthe similarities between people instead of focusing on differences, torecognise some part of ourselves in the life of a stranger.
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"The gentle balance of colour and emotion reveal memories and the child's growing understanding that he need not fear strangers who appear gruff and scruffy, different and intimidating. That beneath the obvious differences of a person, there often dwells a story worth sharing and a reason to love. This is a mighty concept to grasp in our modern day world ...  it promotes a phenomenal sense of humanity, of not judging a book by its cover."

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