How exciting, this is one of my favorite author/illustrators with an amazingly beautiful and insightful story of Orange Moon with the magic of nature at her fingertips and a heart full of wonder and joy!
Rich hues of orange-red with a hint of umber contrast with brilliant wildflowers of summer, to set the stage for a vibrant story that warmed my heart and imagination!
This story eloquently expresses the healing potential of seeking out nature and noticing how infinitely connected we all are to each other and everything on our world.
Rich hues of orange-red with a hint of umber contrast with brilliant wildflowers of summer, to set the stage for a vibrant story that warmed my heart and imagination!
At bedtime I sat down to read Orange Moon and the Grandmother
Tree.
Elloise, otherwise known as Orange Moon loves to play outside anytime of the year, but especially summer. Reading the story aloud to myself brought to life the healing power of love.
Elloise, otherwise known as Orange Moon loves to play outside anytime of the year, but especially summer. Reading the story aloud to myself brought to life the healing power of love.
Orange Moon (Elloise) shares her love and joy
with a new friend. She has
experienced grief and empathizes easily with the loss her
friend feels. So Orange Moon shares what she compassionately believes
to be true and gratefully celebrates this with her Grandmother Tree and her new
friend too.
Gently Orange Moon models how to open our hearts warmly with
love to discover more about nature, our relationships and our selves.
I noticed myself pausing to gaze at the beautiful pictures. As
I reflected, they reminded me of my own childhood innocence spent in natural
spaces relaxing and playing during timeless days.
I realized the power of these beautiful pictures can
invite a young child also to pause and gaze at the nature surrounding Orange
Moon. The pictures can invite the readers to talk and warmly open our own hearts
to share just like Orange Moon.
This story eloquently expresses the healing potential of seeking out nature and noticing how infinitely connected we all are to each other and everything on our world.
This book is a treasure, a keeper, and one that will enrich a very
young child as a picture book and last right through the school age years!
The story can enrich our adult lives too, as Orange Moon
encourages all of us to open our hearts, to notice
the beauty and healing potential within nature!
There is a lifetime of wisdom to discover within this story, to grow with
your child and within us adults too.
The morning after reading Orange Moon, the sunlight shone a little brighter as it melted the snow in my backyard. The warm winds that night had blown the coldest winter chill away.
The morning after reading Orange Moon, the sunlight shone a little brighter as it melted the snow in my backyard. The warm winds that night had blown the coldest winter chill away.
The sunlight barely enters my kitchen and only in the winter.
So on this warmer day, I opened the kitchen door and encouraged my cat Lila to
it lay upon a chair in the sunshine. I sat in the sunshine too and together we absorbed the
brilliant and warm solar energy for a half hour before it slipped behind a
cloud.
During this quiet sit, I realized that Orange Moon was with me
too at that moment. With my eyes
closed, face tilted into the sunshine, I could see the soothing colorful hues
of orange and red with a hint of umber. In this warm space, I too reflected on
the teachings of Orange Moon.
In the afternoon, the sun returned and so I drove up to higher
hills to go for a walk, just so I could linger in the sun and stretch the daylight a little longer.
Marghanita Hughes is such
a talented Storyteller, Illustrator, and Photographer! She is truly able to spark a child’s
sense of wonder or with the active child within your adult heart!
Orange Moon is part of a
book series based upon a child’s wonder of the natural world.
So the fun will continue!
*Choose some crafts at the end of the story to
inspire
your play outdoors and notice the magic and wonder in nature!
Educators, Counsellors etc. would also
appreciate this book as an excellent therapeutic tool
for discussion of death/dying.
appreciate this book as an excellent therapeutic tool
for discussion of death/dying.
As well, Marghanita
Hughes is the award winning creator of,
“The
Little Humbugs”.
She is also Founder of
the non-profit organization,
Let’s Go
Outside
whose mission is; to inspire to change the way children spend their
time.
As Marghanita Hughes states,
“ We Are Nature - We
Are All Connected!”
