pedigree moon?

No, not pedigree, but perigee, apparently.

Last night’s full moon was the biggest of 2009 – or, to put it another way, the moon passed closest to the earth yesterday on its eliptical orbit, making the full moon appear bigger than it will again during the year ahead.

Nasa have waxed poetic on the subject –
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cold snap

Featherfall
simplifies the city.
Cameras click; mobiles sing.

El Prado, Madrid
El Prado, Madrid

bubbles, butterflies & baseball

Apparently unrelated, perhaps, but the words in the title do, in fact, have something in common: they are the topics of the three new titles in the T-Tales collection by Topka.

Bubbles book cover
Bubbles
Where's my Butterfly?
Where's my Butterfly?
Playing for Papa
Playing for Papa

 

 

 

 

 

 

And those are the books I’ll be reading at two separate readings/story-telling sessions in Madrid this coming Saturday, December 13th.
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from poem to picture book

Any author will tell you that the process which results in a book reaching the bookshop shelves is long and, at times, tortuous.

My own experience makes it five and a half years from the original poem being written to its appearance this month as Bubbles, a bilingual children’s picture book, now available from Topka.

from poem to picture book
from poem to picture book

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hai’ku

Castilla y León 17/11/2008
Castilla y León 17/11/2008

Sunward
ivy snakes
scaling trunks of pines