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1. Weather, Weather

   Maira Kalman + Daniel Handler

   Artist Maira Kalman and writer Daniel Handler’s lyrical illustrated celebration of the elements, in collaboration with the archives of the Museum of Modern Art:

2. Hurry Up and Wait

   Maira Kalman

   Daniel Handler, Maira Kalman, and the Museum of Modern Art collaborate on this absolutely wonderful children’s book for grownups celebrating how to live with presence and stillness in the age of productivity and constant motion:

3. Girls Standing on the Lawn

   Daniel Handler

   Girls Standing on Lawns — a wonderfully quirky collaboration between Maira Kalman, Daniel Handler and MoMA

4. 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy

   Lemony Snicket

   Lemony Snicket is back with a charming story about curiosity, the imagination and the subjectivity of observation, illustrated by his wife, Lisa Brown