Time Is a Flower

Does the cover of Time Is a Flower make you think of an early '80s jazzercise VHS tape, or a late '70s Gail Sheehy bestseller? Open it anyway, and you'll find a wonderfully evocative and open-ended appreciation of one of the most basic, but most mysterious, elements of our lives: time, whether it moves slowly or quickly, whether it makes your hair grow or a mountain turn, gradually, into a pebble. It's one of my favorite picture books of the year.