Hmmm - M the Humdinger
- Publisher
- HARP Publishing The People's Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2020
- Category
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780993829574
- Publish Date
- Oct 2020
- List Price
- $31.75
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 5 to 18
- Grade: k to 12
Description
About the author
Contributor Notes
Dorothy’s hand and Monarch butterfly on Asclepias tuberosa
Dorothy lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia with her husband John Graham-Pole, where they co-founded HARP: The People’s Press (www.harppublishing.ca), a social enterprise, multi-media publishing house dedicated to the healing arts and arts for health equity.
Dorothy’s two careers at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX), first in Operations Management and then on Adult Education faculty, informs her “retirement” career as a writer, nature artist, and co-publisher of HARP.
Dorothy’s writing and artwork published by HARP are featured in the intergenerational storybook Hmmm – M the Humdinger along with art cards drawn from the botanical collages for Hmmm. Elder John R. Prosper and Dorothy Lander’s joint memoir, Mi’kmaw Fiddler Joe Marble Plays to St. Anne: A Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing Pilgrimage, was published in July 2022. Dorothy’s Rice Lake memoir, ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar (Introduction by Elder Maurice Switzer) will be released on September 30, 2022, National Truth and Reconciliation Day, at St. George’s Chapel, Gore’s Landing, Ontario.
Dorothy can be found on Facebook, Linked-In, and Twitter.
Excerpt: Hmmm - M the Humdinger (by (author) Dorothy Lander)
Everyone was looking for ways to play out how much they had learned from M about love and
friendship between people who are different. So together they invented a humming circle game to
play around the honeysuckle bush. They numbered off as either honeysuckle, which spirals
counterclockwise towards the sun, or morning glory, which coils clockwise to the sun. M invented a
humming melody and every time the humming changed direction, the players swung their partner.
Hmmm Hmmm
As the humming came to an end, every honeysuckle and morning glory sought the other to fold in a
hug.
Editorial Reviews
This delightful book is fun for all ages-my 4-year old granddaughter watched and listened all the
way through and then went dancing and humming around the house.
'"Grandma, I did like the book"
https:/ /youtu.be/bwjYJHsWluk
As this book is being published, we are in tough times. This little story reminds us that we are
all special and inspires us with both the beauty of nature in the artwork and the beauty of the
human voice. As we preserve art, music, and especially beauty, humans will become a less
destructive species.
- Marilyn Manzer, music educator, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
