It's Poetry Friday, and Linda Mitchell is hosting HERE at A Word Edgewise. Along with her post, I'm using the Poetry Friday art she designed! Be sure to visit Linda to read her mash-ups! (Don't know what they are? Go visit! Thanks for hosting, Linda!
I hope your holiday time has been moving along with delight this year!
I wrote of my favorite things, trees, last week, and this week, another favorite thing popped up, a marvelous book about the moon and so much more!
It's not a book of poetry, yet the story is so poetic, I wanted to make each of you aware of it if you haven't seen it yet. James Norbury offers a story of sacrifice and friendship. It's an adventure with young dog Amaya who is searching for her parents and is nearly destroyed by a wolf pack until its leader saves her. They go on a journey to find her family, and along the way, the words they, really James Norbury, show us life lessons of friendship, taking a path that may only seem to be the way, and not giving up caring for the feelings of each other, whether it's worry or grief. That moon is their touchstone, and Norbury's illustrations are stunning as the wolf and Amaya travel together. I say it's a love song for humans in such disarray this year. And, I can never resist a book about the moon!
early morning moonglow
thoughts of years of moon tales
what stories will you tell?
Linda Baie ©
Thanks for sharing, Linda. I just had a quick google (I was intrigued!) and it seems to be of a similar style to Charlie Mackesy's work. Would you say?
ReplyDeleteYes, I almost added that, Kat, but think it can stand alone, too. A friend sent me Mackesy's latest that he illustrated, Muggleswick Wood by Vicky Cowie, but I haven't read it yet. I hope you can enjoy Norbury's book when you can get it! Thanks!
DeleteA new book and a sweet poem to go with it. I love the word "moonglow".
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up about Norbury's book! We definitely need "a love song for humans" these days. Will definitely look for this one. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat stories will you tell? A delicious question and one that likely will tug on all of us when we read this book. Thanks so much for the recommendation!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Margaret, Jama, & Linda! I do admit that I am really sentimental but the theme of this makes me want everyone to read it & ponder the words said that seem very important to those characters and to us humans everywhere!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fascinating story, thanks for sharing it! One can never have enough moon-ish adventures… I like your moon tales poem too, thanks for all Linda!
ReplyDeleteOh I love the word "moonglow."
ReplyDeleteThanks, Michelle & Marcie! The last full moon will rise early tomorrow. It's called the 'cold' moon! It's great to see but I think I'll see it a bit later!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of moonglow and moonshadows this morning, as both greeted me when I woke early this morning. This book sounds lovely--thanks so much for sharing it and for your poem. There's an especially lovely rhythm to that first line!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Molly! I had the pleasure of watching the final full "cold" moon last evening. We are so clear there that even in the city, it was gorgeous!
DeleteMany thanks for the recommendation - it sounds like a perfect winter read, wrapped up under the moonglow.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jane! I hope you can find it sometime!
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