Gardens for Children
October, When Dee Comes Close
A small elder, and a message that is not a speech
William Vincent Carleton
Dee doesn't talk the way Nell the bear or Bram the fox do. A chickadee sends news by distance: far in summer, closer in October, when she may land near a still hand. Ada does not grab, because grabbing ends the teaching. This second Gardens for Children book is about the elder of the stake, the order of a thicket, and a message that arrives as nearness.
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