Cherry Moon
Cherry Moon

Cherry Moon

By Zaro Weil

$24.95

Publication Date: March 7, 2023

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Ages 3 to 7, Grades P to 2

This illustrated anthology of poems about the natural world will encourage children of every age to explore the power, enchantment and wonderfulness of poetry and nature.

Winner of the CLPE Award for Children's Poetry 2020.

This dazzling poetry collection bubbles with excitement and creativity, capturing the sheer joy of the natural world. Discover parades of beast-doodles, preposterous penguins, talking blossoms, playful birds, humble fleas and a host of other exotic and everyday creatures who jump off the page and into our hearts.Thought-provoking, delightfully original and beautifully illustrated, Cherry Moon will encourage children of every age to explore the power, enchantment and wonderfulness of poetry and nature.

Includes ideas for thinking about, performing, and taking the poetry further for more fun and learning.

Excerpt:

LISTEN EARTH

listen earth

make sure
your buried rainbows
come up today
just like last spring

and a million springs
before that

About the Author

Zaro Weil lives in southern France with her husband, her two dogs - Spot Guevara Hero Dog and little Haiku - and a host of birds, insects, badgers, wild boars, crickets, donkeys, goats, hares and loads more. She has been a lot of things; dancer, theatre director, actor, poet, playwright, educator, quilt collector, historian, author and publisher. Zaro's book, Cherry Moon, won the prestigious CLiPPA Award for outstanding children's poetry in 2020.

Junli Song studied economics and international development at the University of Chicago and then at the University of Oxford before radically changing course to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin. On completion in 2018 she won a fellowship at Spudnik Press, a printmaking collective in her home town of Chicago, and she is currently studying for a Masters in Fine Art.

Format: Hardcover Paper over boards

Length: 188 pages

Publisher: Welbeck Editions

Publication Date: March 7, 2023

ISBN: 9781803380834

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