Beautiful Blue eyes, book Review (And a giveaway)

From the website:

Do you remember that first moment you looked into your newborn’s eyes? When you saw their color and watched them express your  infant’s first feelings about this strange new world?

Marianne Richmond transforms that moment of seeing her child’s blue eyes into a touching story in her new book Beautiful Blue Eyes (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky; ISBN: 978-1-4022-5639-4; HC $15.99; April 2011), which is a follow-up to Beautiful Brown Eyes.

Heartwarming, charming, and sure to become a new favorite of fans who adore Marianne Richmond’s beautiful artwork and insightful prose, this book shows blue-eyed children the wonder of their uniqueness.

“I watched, and I waited
as your eyes chose their hue,
deciding in time
on their beautiful blue.

Blue as a butterfly
or the sparkling sea.
Blue as the bluebird
who sings in her tree.”


Beautiful Blue Eyes
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky; ISBN: 978-1-4022-5639-4; HC $15.99
April 2011


About the Author:

Marianne Richmond turned a personal tragedy into a motivational vehicle, becoming an award-winning author and selling over a million books in the process.

Her career was launched by accident; she was diagnosed with a brain tumor (thankfully benign), the cause of numerous epileptic seizures through her childhood. During her five-week recovery period, Marianne created hand-painted thank you cards for her many well-wishers. With Jim’s, her new boyfriend, and friend’s encouragement, she decided to launch her own greeting card business, Marianne Richmond Studios, Inc.  As distribution for her cards increased, she decided to try her hand at writing a book, honoring her biggest fan, her now-husband Jim, with The Gift of an Angel.

Beginning with her first book in 1997, Gift of An Angel, writer and artist Marianne has touched the lives of millions over the past decade through her line of greeting cards and gift books. Since then she has become a recognized creator of numerous books that celebrate milestones in life, memorable journeys, and relationships.  Marianne currently lives in Minneapolis, MN with her even-keeled husband, Jim, their four kids, and their senior citizen Border Collie, Clay. Find out more at her website www.mariannerichmond.com


My review:

Beautiful Blue Eyes is a wonderfully written and illustrated book by Marianne Richmond, I had the pleasure of reading this book to my daughter who keep questioning me as to why she doesn't have blue eyes! I had to explain to her that since my eyes are brown and her father's eyes are hazel she pretty much had a 99% chance of having brown eyes. Thankfully she left it at that and I didn't have to get out the charts and graphs! As a mother this book spoke to me, the way the mother interacts with her daughter and the first page alone did it for me "When you were little, I looked into your eyes, knowing their color would be a surprise." We pretty much knew Lil's eyes would be brown but before she was born I had that little pang of excitement that maybe she'd buck the scientific trend and have something other than brown. That line brought me back to being pregnant with her and all the excitement of not knowing who she'd look like or what she'd look like.

It's been said that eyes are the window to your soul, and when I was reading the book to my daughter each page reminded me of her in one way or another. The illustrations are nice, and the fact that you can see the texture of the paper the pictures were drawn on under the bright colors is a wonderful touch, it gave the book depth beyond it's wonderful words. I enjoyed reading it to my daughter, and she liked it so much she requested it be read again to her when we put her to sleep. Marianne Richmond has written and illustrated a slew of other books including "Beautiful Brown Eyes," for those of us who have children with brown eye's. My husband wants to know where the Beautiful Hazel Eye's book is because hazel is the best color....his opinion not mine:-)!

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Beautiful Blue eyes is available on amazon for $12.47

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