Author: Henry V. GodnitzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780981304403
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Under the Light of a Tender Moon
Author: Henry V. GodnitzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780981304403
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Winter Moon Song
Author: Martha BrooksPublisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554983215
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Have you ever seen the rabbit-in-the-moon? Folktales from many cultures explain how the rabbit came to be there. When award-winning novelist Martha Brooks heard one such tale, she was inspired to write her own lovely story about a little rabbit who finds a special way to brighten the darkest month of the year. A little rabbit asks his mother how the shape of a rabbit came to be on the moon. She tells him the story of Great Mother Creator Rabbit, who came down to earth to see how her creatures lived. Finding herself cold and hungry, she built a fire, placing a stewpot on top. Another rabbit, seeing her predicament, took it upon himself to save her and jumped into the pot. But before he could perish, Great Mother Rabbit tossed him up into the moon. The little rabbit’s mother explains that this is why all the rabbits now gather to hear the choir sing “Winter Moon Song,” to bring light and a little magic at the darkest time of the year. The next night all the rabbits gather to hear the ancient song, and the little rabbit takes his place in the choir. But at the end of the performance, he feels a little disappointed. It had been beautiful, but did not seem all that special, and certainly not magic. In the wintry air outside the gathering place, the little rabbit looks up at the rabbit-in-the-moon and is suddenly inspired to sing the song once more, very tentatively at first, and then more courageously. Some of the other rabbits, even the old ones, join in; some are moved to tears. And in singing the song anew, they realize the joy in being one great rabbit family. Leticia Ruifernandez has graced the story with her tender illustrations. Includes an author’s note.
Bringing Down the Moon
Author: Jonathan EmmettPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406308983
Category : Stories in rhyme
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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The Poetical Works of Mrs. Horace Dobell
Author: Elizabeth Mary Fordham DobellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Lone Hand
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Author: Men on the Moon
Author: Simon J. OrtizPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
When Faustin, the old Acoma, is given his first television set, he considers it a technical wonder, a box full of mystery. What he sees on its screen that first day, however, is even more startling than the television itself: men have landed on the moon. Can this be real? For Simon Ortiz, Faustin's reaction proves that tales of ordinary occurrences can truly touch the heart. "For me," he observes, "there's never been a conscious moment without story." Best known for his poetry, Ortiz also has authored 26 short stories that have won the hearts of readers through the years. Men on the Moon brings these stories together—stories filled with memorable characters, written with love by a keen observer and interpreter of his people's community and culture. True to Native American tradition, these tales possess the immediacy—and intimacy—of stories conveyed orally. They are drawn from Ortiz's Acoma Pueblo experience but focus on situations common to Native people, whether living on the land or in cities, and on the issues that affect their lives. We meet Jimmo, a young boy learning that his father is being hunted for murder, and Kaiser, the draft refuser who always wears the suit he was given when he left prison. We also meet some curious Anglos: radicals supporting Indian causes, scholars studying Indian ways, and San Francisco hippies who want to become Indians too. Whether telling of migrants working potato fields in Idaho and pining for their Arizona home or of a father teaching his son to fly a kite, Ortiz takes readers to the heart of storytelling. Men on the Moon shows that stories told by a poet especially resound with beauty and depth.
The Victor Book of the Opera
Author: Samuel Holland RousPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Victor Book of the Opera
Author: Letters of Light
Author: Kalonymus Kalman EpsteinPublisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227904885
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
'Letters of Light' is a translation of over ninety passages from a well-known Hasidic text, 'Ma'or va-shemesh', consisting of homilies of Kalonymus Kalman Epstein of Krakow, together with a running commentary and analysis by Aryeh Wineman. With remarkable creativity, the Krakow preacher recast biblical episodes and texts through the prism both of the pietistic values of Hasidism, with its accent on the inner life and the Divine innerness of all existence, and of his ongoing wrestling with questions of the primacy of the individual vis-a-vis of the community. The commentary traces the route leading from the Torah text itself through various later sources to the Krakow preacher's own reading of the biblical text, one that often transforms the very tenor ofthe text he was expounding. Though composed almost two centuries ago, 'Ma'or va-shemesh' comprises an impressive spiritual statement, many aspects of which can speak to our own time and its spiritual strivings.