- Mountain: Go on a Grand Tour of the Highest Places on Earth (Earth’s Incredible Habitats)
- The Search for Me: Poems
- Daughter of Breath: Poems
- The Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through the Camera’s Eye
- Shoreline of the Heart
- Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet
- The Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of our Future
By the staff at Covered Treasures
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere”—Laura Ingalls Wilder
April is National Poetry Month. The first four books listed are by Colorado poets, and the first three authors will sign their books at Covered Treasures on April 5. We also recognize Earth Day in April with a few great titles.
Mountain: Go on a Grand Tour of the Highest Places on Earth (Earth’s Incredible Habitats)
By Jason Bittel (DK Publishing) $25
Young nature enthusiasts can learn all about the impressive mountains of the world through clearly labelled illustrations breaking down each one. Each of the four chapters covers a different type of mountain: plateaus, volcanoes, mountain ranges, and tepuis, with a selection of both famous and less-well known places. Every mountain or range is explored in detail, with intriguing information about its geography and flora and fauna alongside detailed photography. Marvel at the towering Matterhorn in the Alps, mountain goats scrambling across cliff faces in the Rockies, and the tiny sandwort flowers that bloom high up in the Himalayas.
The Search for Me: Poems
By M. E. Johnson (M.E. Publishing) $15
The Search for Me is a collection of 39 poems and a short story masquerading as a poem. Sections are broken out in themes consisting of existentialism, finding and losing oneself, love and loss of love, familial pain/love/loss, plus current affairs and opinions along with silliness thrown throughout. Each one to make you think, perhaps laugh, possibly cry, and often times all three. This is M.E. Johnson’s first book of poetry.
Daughter of Breath: Poems
By Grace E. Kelley (Synthesis Press) $18
Daughter of Breath is a timely voice calling those lost in the wilderness to grieve, heal, and reclaim their authentic voices. Born from the ache of deeply personal yet all too common experiences, the poems in Daughter of Breath will help you create space to name what aches; to grieve the harm that has been caused to you; to reclaim your divinely given identity as Beloved, just as you are; and to move into the world with the power, freedom, and joy that only come from being your whole self.
The Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through the Camera’s Eye
By Kathryn Winograd (The Humble Essayist Press) $25
The surprise gift of a camera during the COVID lockdown sent Kathryn Winograd on a journey through the intersections between written and visual images. The images in The Visible Speaking give rise to meditations on love and loss and beauty, and on the voices of those early explorers of the daguerreotype and the photograph who, dazzled and wary, learned to fix the world in light.
Shoreline of the Heart
By Joseph Murphy (Shanti Arts LLC) $13
A perfect volume for the seeker and philosopher, this third collection from poet Joseph Murphy offers impressionistic expressions of day-to-day experiences viewed through the spiritual lens of Zen Buddhism. “In such a place, to be / meant no longer being bound / to where or when.”
Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet
By Joyce Sidman (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers) $19
From the molten cracks below to the shimmering moon above, Hello, Earth! explores the wonders of the natural world. This young reader’s book of imaginative poems will encourage boundless curiosity, with stunning paintings that capture the beauty of earth’s ecosystems, creatures, and powerhouse plants. The book concludes with extensive scientific material to foster further learning about how the earth works, from water cycles to plate tectonics to the origin of ocean tides.
The Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of our Future
By Daniel Lewis (Avid Readers Press) $20
Scientists, ethnobotanists, indigenous peoples, and collectives of all kinds are closely studying trees and their biology to understand how and why trees function individually and collectively in the ways they do. Lewis takes us on a sweeping journey to plant breeding labs, botanical gardens, research facilities, deep inside museum collections, to the tops of tall trees, underwater, and around the Earth, journeying into the deserts of the American West and the deep jungles of Peru, to offer a globe-spanning perspective on the crucial impact trees have on our entire planet.
Until next month, happy reading.
The staff at Covered Treasures can be reached at books@ocn.me.
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