Ten Coloradans of differing backgrounds and interests share eleven picture books from the state's authors, illustrators, publishers, or about our state, for young children. They also give tips to parents about sharing books and helping youngsters love reading.

"Selected from among the country's leading literary publications--Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Creative Nonfiction, the Georgia Review, the Normal School, Prairie Schooner, and others--Beautiful Flesh gathers nineteen works of creative nonfiction to build a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, blood, bones, brain, ears, eyes, feet, hair, hands, heart, knees, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas,...