Bøger af Anna Elkins

Poet and painter Anna Elkins has lived a very good life on very little income. Over the years, people have asked her how, and so she gathered her stories and concepts together. In these pages, you'll find musings on gratitude and grace, encounters with pricey pastries, and ideas for growing the imagination-all part of learning to see obstacles as opportunities and limitations as invitations. May the fruit of our choices be sweet.

The Heart Takes Flight is a children's book for grownups, celebrating all those who wake into their dreams. With its inked images and text, this illustrated vignette invites you to try on your wings.

What is the space between two people? Between a promise and its fulfillment? Between heaven and earth? This collection of poetry asks us these questions by weaving what is with what is dreamed. The resulting fabric is fine enough to see heaven through and thick enough keep us warm in earthly winters.The Space Between received Honorable Mentions from the 2014 San Francisco Book Review and The Paris Book Review.

"Once upon a time, in a village at the base of a narrow river valley, the sun rose every single morning, even when people worried it wouldn't." So begins the parable of a young girl named Day who chooses to hope for more than the dim and limited world she calls home. In this children's book for grownups, you are invited to climb with Day, past knowns and unknowns, up to a bright vantage point where choice and possibility reach farther than the eye can see. You are invited to And: The Story of More.

"Elkins has a gift for painting pictures with few words....But her greatest success is molding Melissa into such an authentic, appealing character that it's natural to cheer her on as she makes a bid for everything she never knew she wanted in life."-Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards The card from Aunt Tifi invites Melissa to France, but the contents of the attached package send her into a panic. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Melissa accepts the invitation, quits her job, and journeys to the Canal du Midi to meet her Aunt's relatives, not knowing the strange and flavorful company they keep. If she can open the eyes of her heart, Mel may see that her life, her loves-her very name-are the sweet harvests of her most bitter fear.