"Two-time Caldecott Honor recipient Marla Frazee brings her considerable talents to a timeless celebration of birth and life in In Every Life, a wonder of a picture book.... Frazee’s love both for her art and for life itself shines from each page of In Every Life. This gentle, luminous book is a treasure."
– BookPage
"Readers looking for picture books featuring people who look like them: rejoice!... Fellowship is precisely the feeling that [Frazee] captures here, in uplifting word and luminous image."
– Shelf Awareness For Readers, STARRED REVIEW
"This book is a meditation on gratitude, full of intricate symbolism.... The overall mood is slow, steady, and soothing. The combination of the spiritual words and the prosaic moments alternating with grand panoramas bestows a magnitude to the minutiae of the everyday. The characters are diverse in every sense of the word, representing a myriad of families and lived experiences. While the book’s brevity is appropriate for a read-aloud, children will want to examine the illustrations closely.... Simultaneously simple and majestic, this benediction of a book is recommended for first purchase."
– School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
"This brief, stirring benediction... starts with new life. A rich trove of moving images lets Frazee range over an expansive constellation of human experiences, offering fodder to explore and discuss."
– Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
"Providing opportunities for observation, conversation, and reflection... This lyrical blessing of a picture book belongs on every shelf."
– Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW