All The World Praises You

All The World Praises You is the compilation of beautiful artwork of artist, Debra Band .


Using the wording of the biblical prose of Perek Shira, Band has created wonderful drawings to illustrate each of these writings.  Taking a word that represents each Hebrew letter and a descriptive musing about that word, she has created a wonderful way to enjoy learning new Hebrew words while enjoying the beautiful art creations.  Working with the translations and transliterations of scholar, and Arnold J. Band, and added her colorful and imaginative artwork.

The artwork is brilliant and brightly colored.  Covering all the the Alef Bet with words like Eretz/Earth and Barak/Lightening all the way to Shin represented by the Milky Way/ Shvil hehalav.

In each of the drawings there are dahlias and honeybees.  The author has hidden these two depictions in the drawings following a medieval custom, colophon, where the Jewish scribe included their names hidden in their work at the end of their written work.  Band has hidden dahlias in the pictures for her granddaughter, Dahlia and the word for honeybee is devorah.  At the end there are two paintings with hidden dahlias and honeybees along with Hebrew letters for readers to find. 

There is also a learning guide for teachers to use this book in a classroom setting.  This is a beautiful way for readers of all ages to start learning some Hebrew vocabulary, while enjoying the colorful artwork.