The Selkie

Torn between sea mists and solid land
Nights when I’ve ached for a human hand
I’ll come to you while the Moon shines bright
But I must go free with the first streak of light

_Celtic Voices ~ Women of song

 

Stay




For every Bird a Nest --
Wherefore in timid quest
Some little Wren goes seeking round --

Wherefore when boughs are free --
Households in every tree --
Pilgrim be found?

Perhaps a home too high --
Ah Aristocracy!
The little Wren desires --

Perhaps of twig so fine --
Of twine e'en superfine,
Her pride aspires --

The Lark is not ashamed
To build upon the ground
Her modest house --

Yet who of all the throng
Dancing around the sun
Does so rejoice?

-Emily Dickinson



                

                
            

                                

                

                    
Swept

                

                

                	
“I must get these leaves swept away before the North wind blows,” thought Mother Bear. “When the North wind blows, bears get sleepy.”

Not so for baby bears!  “The North wind won’t catch me!” squealed Baby Bear.

Mother paused for a moment and smiled, as she  remembered her own dance of the autumn leaves.  “I hope it never does Baby Bear, I hope it never does!”


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Stir

                

                

                	




Finnian was a mouse with a nose for trouble. This time it was a doozy!

Luckily, his brother Sylvester was there to fish him out of his predicament.


                

                
            

                                

                

                    
Ruby Rue

                

                

                	
These are pages 14 and 15 of my book dummy.  I’m at the half way point, and trying to get it finished by the Houston SCBWI conference on April 9, 2011.


Here Ruby considers a menu change….. to say the least!!


                

                
            

                                
                                
                                

                

                    
And of Course… Eye of Newt

                

                

                	
A light bulb moment at 5:00 in the morning… do I get up and draw it right now, or go back to sleep.Well… I didn’t get up, and I didn’t go back to sleep either!

There was no sleeping until Ruby got the new direction she was asking for.

Don’t you hate it… and love it when this happens!!!!


Ruby Rue and dummy book by Roberta Baird.