Last week I began working at the perfect job for me. I am teaching Comp II: Writing about Literature at Northark College. Northark College is a beautiful school in the gorgeous Ozark Mountains. I love the fact that Northark College is within minutes from where the opening of the movie Tuck Everlasting was filmed: Tuck…
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Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 2 and Autumn: Seasons of Life
For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. Something Wicked This Way Comes…
Loss of Inner Light in Women Who Run With the Wolves – Learn to See in the Dark
Over the past week, I have explored the theme of darkness in literature. In the Bible, we are told that in the beginning, the world was nothing but darkness. There was no moon. There was no sun. We are told that water moved across the darkness at that time, and therefore, I imagine that in…
Stellaluna by Jannell Cannon
Stellaluna by Jannell Cannon The illustrations for Stellaluna are incandescent. The fruit bats glow against their blue backgrounds. Like the very moon itself, Stellaluna’s mother is a light that illuminates the night sky. I Nominate the Owl and the Pussy Cat and the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon as Literature’s Greatest Heros While we…
Hello, Moon – A Picture Book by Julie Downing
“Hello, moon. Goodbye, sun. Night is near. Day is done. In my opinion, Julie Downing’s Hello Moon is a perfect short picture book. The literary theme of Night versus Day plays heavily in this book. But in Hello, Moon, the nighttime is not sinister or evil. It Dark versus Light – Night versus Day –…
The Moon & the Stars — Things That Light the Night
Darkness versus the Light or Night versus Day are themes that frequently appear in the arts. In most cases, when the theme of the night is employed in a literary piece, the darkness of the night alludes to something sinister that is present in the story. Dark versus Light – Night versus Day – Themes…
Celebrating the Cow that Jumped Over the Moon – How A Children’s Poem Influenced My Adult Art
No doubt, the cow that jumped over the moon has inspired many poets, artists, and illustrators. I cannot begin to name the ways that The Cow Jumped Over the Moon has contributed to the artist and the writer that I still strive to become, and I want to challenge everyone to consider how very marvelous…