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An adorable reimagining of Baba Yaga as a witch from Santa Fe. I loved all of the nods to the inspiration, like the roadrunner legs and the prickly pear fence. I'm not sure why the girl looks like she stepped out of Tim Burton's imagination in most scenes. #Retelling #BabaYaga #Witch #PictureBook

“The clay is a part of the land, and the land is a part of us.”

This book shows the connection between the earth, the environment, and the cultural heritage of Native Americans with clay.

This book can be used to teach about cultural appreciation, environmental awareness, and the significance of storytelling in different cultures.

Published in 1901, The Desert is one of the first books that wrote about, and espoused the beauties of, (you called it) the desert. Traveling through the American Southwest, and specifically the Mojave, (an experience that probably augmented his post as art advisor to industrialist Andrew Carnegie), Van Dyke points out the vivid and stark beauty of his surroundings, or what he calls “the sublimity of the waste.”

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I like the slow pace and the sense of place in this book.🌵