I'm in Charge of Celebrations

by Byrd Baylor, Peter Parnall (Illustrator)

Overview

Byrd Baylor's text captures and shares some of the special experiences in the Southwest desert country that have inaugurated her private celebrations: The Time of Falling Stars, in the middle of August, when "every time a streak of light goes shooting through the darkness, I feel my heart shoot out of me"; Rainbow Celebration Day, marking the time she and a jackrabbit stood together watching a triple-rainbow over a canyon; and the real New Year's Day (January first is "just another winter day"), the day spring begins. "I celebrate with horned toads and ravens and lizards and quail...And, Friend, it's not a bad party."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684185798
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	06/30/1986
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	700L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Byrd Baylor lives and writes in Arizona, presenting images of the Southwest and an intense connection between the land and the people. Her prose illustrates vividly the value of simplicity, the natural world, and the balance of life within it.