This visually and textually stunning book depicts the arrival of dawn’s light in a host of quiet and profound moments. Watercolor, pencil, and digital collage illustrations handsomely framed against white backdrops portray intimate vignettes from nature. Carefully chosen words flow from one panel to the next, illuminating the arrival of the day with beauty, humor, and judicious alliteration and onomatopoeia. For instance, a quartet of panels chronicles a ladybug’s ascent of a single blade of grass, brimming with dew: “climb, quench, drip, drop.” A single songbird, a canopy of birds, and an emerging arrow of geese are captioned with “call, chorus, flock, formation.”Arresting and quiet, this uncomplicated picture book offers literary meditation.