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