And the People Stayed Home

From the popular, globally viral prose poem comes a beautifully produced picture book that encourages us to look within, listen deeply, and connect with ourselves and nature in order to heal.

And the People Stayed Home features Kitty O’Meara’s hopeful message about the possibility of profound healing for people and the planet. In these pages the thoughtful words are richly illustrated, and words and images together communicate an optimism for our shared experience and our future that will resonate with readers of all ages.

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Kitty O’Meara lives near Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, Phillip Hagedorn, their five rescue dogs, three cats, gardens, and books. Formerly a middle school writing and literature teacher and hospital and hospice chaplain, she is currently a spiritual director and has been a lifelong writer and artist. She has been called “the poet laureate of the pandemic” based on her wildly popular, widely circulated, and hopeful poem about the COVID-19 pandemic. That poem is illustrated and presented in book form in And the People Stayed Home, her best-selling first print book, published by Tra Publishing. She is also the author of The Rare, Tiny Flower (Tra Publishing, 2021).

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Hardcover, $18.99, 32 pages, 9.25 x 12 inches, ISBN: 978-1734761788, Age Range: 4-8