Books like Berry Song
By Michaela Goade
For the kid who loves collecting things outside and asking what's edible, this is a walk through the seasons with someone who knows every berry by name. Quiet, reverent, glowing with color and season.
Twelve poems follow one family through a full year, from January sledding to July fireworks to autumn leaves underfoot, finding wonder in each month's particular light and weather.
A six-year-old boy spends his days in his grandfather Luis's towering garden, learning bird names, playful expressions, and reading and writing from a grandfather who never had schooling of his own.
A father and child wake before dawn and head into the mountains for a day of hiking, facing the wilderness together and even helping the forest along the way.
A gentle tour through nature at dusk, as mother animals — owl, fox, whale, and more — each tell their babies just how deep and boundless their love runs.
A parent shares a string of tender wishes for a child — to find wonder in flying birds, to know love as vast and constant as the moon loves the sky.
A boy and his father fish before dawn at a Minneapolis pond, not for sport but for food, while stories of a different pond back in Vietnam quietly surface between casts.
A day in the life of family and friends unfolds from morning to night, moving from a tiny shell on the beach to the wide, darkening sunset sky.
Mother Earth writes a heartfelt letter to children everywhere, telling them how much she loves them and asking them to love and protect her and all the creatures who share her home.
A boy named Eli grows up on his grandparents' farm, learning to love the barn, the fields, and the river that surround him — then shares those same places with his baby sister, Sylvie.
A grandmother rises at five in the morning to spend her day fishing on the lake, packing worms, minnows, and fruit for lunch — then cleans her catch and bakes for a supper she's fully earned.
A gentle retelling of the Nativity story, set among barn animals who witness a quiet, extraordinary birth on a cold night.
An elderly Plains Indian woman dies and journeys into the afterlife her people believe in, while her family carries out the customs of preparing her body and saying goodbye.
