Books like Remember
By Joy Harjo
For quiet mornings and slow bedtimes, this is a book that asks a child to simply notice — the sky, the moon, the people who made them — and feel how big and connected that is. Meditative, reverent, hushed and expansive, like a lullaby that opens into the whole sky.
A poetic meditation on how nature — sunlight, rain, wind, the changing seasons — slips into our homes and lives even when we're stuck indoors, gently reminding us we're never really separate from the outside world.
A girl and her grandmother gather salmon, herring eggs, and berries across the seasons on their island home, singing to the land as it sings back to them.
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.
Smoke itself speaks in riddles, describing how it has signaled, flavored, healed, and mattered to people across centuries — from ancient fires to sacred ceremonies.
A child looks closely at a single flower, using every sense to explore its color, its scent, its texture — and discovers a whole universe unfolding from one small bloom.
A meditation on desert life, where Desert People and desert animals move through the same sun-baked land, bound together as fellow creatures who understand its rhythms and belong to it.
A small island in the sea moves through the changing seasons, day turning to night and a storm rolling in, as its plants and creatures live out the rhythm of the year.
A girl moves to a new house on a street of plain, mowed lawns and lets one wildflower grow instead of cutting it down, turning her yard into a small meadow.
As the sun comes up, birds, horses, rabbits, flowers, and bugs wake one by one, until finally the children rise to greet the day too.
A girl named Alice Rumphius vows to travel the world, live by the sea, and find a way to make the world more beautiful — and spends her life keeping that promise.
A woman who loves the trees of her Kenyan homeland begins planting seeds one by one, teaching other women to do the same, until the whole country grows strong and green again.
A New England farmer loads his ox-cart with everything his family made all year — wool, a shawl, mittens, birch brooms — and travels to Portsmouth Market to sell it all, even his ox, before heading home to start again.
