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All of these whimsical stories are meant to be read and read aloud. Words have been used to capture not only the look of nature, but the feel, the sound, the texture and the rhythm of nature. Photographs are one way of painting nature. Words are another. These words have been chosen to allow you to step into a moment of nature’s whimsy. They are Mother Nature’s gifts to the children of the world, each and every one of us.

Can You Hear The Earth Sing?

"What are you doing Don Pancho?"

"I'm listening to the earth sing, mi'jita."

So begins the hauntingly lovely conversation between a little girl and her friend, the village elder, Don Pancho about the wonders of nature. The whimsical notes of the "songs" the earth sings will tickle the imagination, and delight children as well as adults. The implicit lesson about paying attention to our connection with nature, getting so quiet you can hear a "star's lullaby to the trees" is gently cloaked in lyrical word pictures that invoke the southwestern flavor and landcape that inspired the story.

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Isle of Makai

tinker The Isle of Makai is a whimsical tale of a grumpy, but kind King who banishes colors from his island kingdom, and how young Sophronia and her beautiful pygmy goat Tinker help the King save the Many of our fondest memories of moments in nature have to do with her extraordinary palette of colors.

From butterflies to flowers to storms to sunsets, the colors that occur in nature are a dazzling rainbow of choices. Nowhere have I seen colors that took my breath away more than the thousand and one shades of blue that you see flying over the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. That is the first place that I truly knew the meaning of azure blue. Isle of Makai is a child of that first flight and the wonder of the islands.

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Where Is My Twinkle?

twinkle Childhood is a time of sweetness and happy, exploration, but it also contains moments of frustration, hurt, or confusion. Where Is My Twinkle is a story about what happens when a little girl has one of those bad days and loses her happy Twinkle. She searches all over and asks all her friends where to find her Twinkle but she can't find it in any of the places they tell her to look. Finally, her mother tells her the secret of where her Twinkle has been hiding.

Twinkle is dedicated to all my animal friends, who constantly help me find my Twinkle on those days it seems far, far away.

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Moonbows and Other Wonders

moonbow Moonbows tells of the Dragon Earth Mother's sadness when she finds out that children are afraid of the night, never go outside, and have never seen a shimmering night sky. It is a story poem born of a thousand childhood nights of being taken outside to see the stars whether up in the mountains or just in our backyard. It was inspired by an extraordinary phenomenon that occurs in the South Pacific, a night rainbow, a white rainbow that stretches from the sky to the sea. All around the world, myths and legends speak of the balance of nature, light and dark. Night, in all its glory, is becoming a forgotten miracle in our fast paced electronic world. In lives lived by the miracle of electric light, Moonbows reminds us to take a moment to step outside, and enjoy the velvet beauty of nighttime with its sparkling starlit skies and gentle covering of darkness that allows the frenetic pace of humans to slow down, and nature with all its creatures the chance to take a deep breath.