https://youtu.be/qhunZiepDrU By C. Dawn McCallum (Originally published in Brilliant Star Magazine, March/April Issue 2003) Follow my Author page on Amazon.com! -------- Princess Sufficient gazed over the village square as the subjects of her parents’ kingdom prepared for the daily Celebration of the Big Rising Sun. Next to the Festival of Helpfulness that lasted all day... Continue Reading →
The Canyon Flier
(Originally published in READ Magazine on November 21, 2003) https://youtu.be/yyCVRLy1r7o Ernesto rolled the pebble between his fingers and stared out at the road, watching for the cloud of dust that would rise when the truck came to take them to the fields where their short-handled hoes would hack the beets under the leaves, and their... Continue Reading →
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Ten Books I Love (in the order which I encountered them)
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl When I read this book, I knew I wanted to be a writer. A delicious concoction of the sorrows and delights of life. 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee I love hard stories that are told sweetly. A perfect book. 3. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade,... Continue Reading →
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The Caretake of Tree Palace (kids’ novel)
Caretaker of Tree Palace, The Author: C. Dawn McCallum Product Code: CTPH ISBN: 978-097640263-3 Publisher: Longhorn Creek Press Pages: 117 Binding Information: Hardcover Size: 5 3/4" X 8 3/4" Inches Availability: In stock. What do you do you go when everything in your life is changing?Twelve-year-old Doodles retreats to the pages of his ratty notebook where he can draw his own world. After his... Continue Reading →
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The Waking Tree, Chapter 1: HUM (first half)
My limbs and roots breathed in the world around me. My Abracadabra, my Josephine. My tree girls danced pretty rings around my trunk. I breathed them in. “Sing to me. Hum me a song, our song,” said Abra, lying under my branches that first night. “Sing the song that goes up to the moon and... Continue Reading →
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The Waking Tree: Introduction
Scientific name: Maclura pomifera Common names: Hedge tree, Bois d’arc, Osage Orange In Texas, we call it bodark. The Osage Indians used to make bows from its curved and supple limbs. Two of the tree’s names are derived from this fact. (Bois d’arc means “wood of the bow.” The fruit of the... Continue Reading →
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