Celebrate the Four Seasons with These Haiku for Children

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Dec. 26, 2014 - PRLog -- Spring Rain Winter Snow celebrates the four seasons with insightful haiku and enchanting illustrations. It is the first children's book released by Shanti Arts Publishing, a small, independent press focused on art, nature, and spirit, with a passion to create beautiful and compelling books. It is also the first children's book by historian and author Edward J. Rielly and illustrator Angelina Buonaiuto.

With several pages of haiku and illustrations devoted to each season, the pages of this lovely book are filled with opportunities for children to gaze, wonder, question, and smile. Both children and adults will enjoy this book for its engaging approach to the magic of nature's seasons.

Edward J. Rielly is the author of about two dozen books and is a professor of English at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. His recent publications include Bread Pudding and Other Memories: A Boyhood on the Farm (Little Creek Press. A Division of Kristin Mitchell Design, LLC, 2014), The Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne (with David Robert Wooten, McFarland, 2012), Legends of American Indian Resistance (Greenwood, 2011) , and To Sadie at 18 Months and Other Poems (Moon Pie Press, 2011).

Angelina Buonaiuto is a kiri-e(cut paper) artist from Maine, living in Brooklyn, New York. She uses paper, print, and paint to create unique colorful illustrations.

Spring Rain Winter Snow is available from Shanti Arts Publishing, many online booksellers, and select bookstores. Print and digital editions are available.

For more information, visit www.shantiarts.com.

Shanti Arts Publishing (2014)
ISBN: 978-1-941830-94-9; $19.99 each (print, hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1-941830-95-6; $7.99 each (digital)