The World Shines for You

A quiet poem contrasts with sweeping, geometric illustrations in this large-format, gift-ready board book from Burton (The Itsy Bitsy Duckling) and Clark (The Biggest Story). Copious foil detailing and embossing make every spread a dazzler as Clark’s bold, 1950s-retro images move from a forest crowded with animals to airships sailing through a mustard-yellow sky and a field laden with pinwheel-like flowers, among other locations. Burton’s repetition-driven verse is simple yet lilting (“There are seeds underground/ There are flowers in the field”), and it builds to the child-affirming declaration of the title, which Clark represents as beams of light and color emanating from Planet Earth in what feels something like a supernova of love. Ages 1–4. (Sept.)