All Your Tomorrows

In Evans’s heartfelt poem of possibility, a parent imagines what the future may hold for the “small slip of a creature./ Barely the length of my forearm” they are cradling. Focusing page by page on fingers, legs, knees, feet, arms, hair, eyes, ears, mouth, and other physical attributes, the adult narrator catalogs a range of hoped-for experiences that each may represent: “These feet will root/ you to the places/ you’ll call/ home./ I hope you’ll/ sink your toes into sand,/ leaving footprints.” Griffiths’s breezy, bucolic illustrations depict children of varying abilities and skin tones wading, watching fireworks, climbing trees, and smelling flowers, creating a dreamlike mood that centers a caretaker’s hopes and desires. Ages 3–7. (Feb.)