The World Before Names

Before the world had names, nothing had finished becoming.A blue creature moves through peonies without waking a petal. A rabbit catches fallen starlight in her fur. Beneath a quilt of roots, the earth grows a moon.Across six poems, The World Before Names imagines a time when nothing, not color, love, distance, or even the world itself, had been told what it must become.Created as an heirloom love letter from a mother to her wild and curious daughter, this luminous collection celebrates the qualities children are too often asked to quiet. Its illustrations and read-aloud language invite young readers to remain curious, untamed, and open to possibility.For the grown-ups beside them, it offers something like a second childhood: another chance to notice how strange and beautiful everything is before familiarity makes it small.For every child still becoming, and every grown-up who has found the world new again through loving one.