"Vizcaya" has old photographs of the house as it was and new ones by the Miami architectural photographer Steven Brooke, but we wish we could see more and larger photographs and illustrations of such a beautiful place.
Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.