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Awe! – Perfect Picture Book Friday
I’ve been a student of awe since I was child, but felt the need to formally study the topic during my MFA program. For one class, I wrote a seminar paper on the sublime: a mix of beauty, grandeur, and awe coupled with our own sense of smallness and fear, but fear experienced through enough distance to allow room for delight, pleasure, and wonder.
I worked to incorporate the sublime (without namin
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| A fun story filled with onomatopoeia (very appropriate since the story is about making sounds) about three friends who want music at their community party. BUT what do you do when it's going to be held in a park without electricity? Do you sit around ...more | |
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| This very personal and heartfelt story focuses a lens on a Japanese-American family that lost their family business and was incarcerated during WWII. Imagine being sent to live in a horse stall. This was an example of how the U.S. government treated ...more | |
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| Ya gotta love Groucho the grouchy groundhog (sarcastic? check! lazy? check!) and his half-pig-half-unicorn sidekick, Blork, who has the amazing superpower of reciting 101 knock-knock jokes in five minutes! Now, add some turnip zombies under the rule ...more | |
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| I love thinking about dancing with our ancestors. It's such a joyous way to remember them and feel their spirits moving through our own bodies. I was immediately pulled into the story about a young girl who's going with her grandfather to a Japanese ...more | |
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| A riveting, true story about a small group of gray whales who veer off their beaten migratory path, risking their lives to feast on shrimp in the shallow, intertidal waters of Puget Sound. It seems like a super smart move, so they can get enough calo ...more | |
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