![]() This is the experience readers will have when reading the latest title, Over the Moon (Scholastic Press, March 26, 2019) written by Natalie Lloyd. At the end, you have tears in your eyes, again. ![]() Even though you know the characters, setting and plot, your sensory experience is still exquisite. Upon the second reading, you pause and place small markers at sentences and paragraphs, profound and timeless. When you are done, the sense of triumph is so complete and sincere, you have no choice. When you complete a captivating title with compelling characters in a scene similar to your own, or one you can easily visualize, heightened with elements of possibility, you can't turn the pages fast enough. ![]() At the same time these places and scores of other locations are figuratively identical in having the Dust, yellow-eyed monsters, and feeling the absence and silence of riders and weavers of light. There are many places in our world literally mirroring the book's setting of mountains and mining, dense forests and valleys with rivers. The characters, compelling in every respect, embody all that is right and good and true and shades of the opposite, too. ![]() From beginning to end every moment is captivating. ![]()
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