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| the solstice badger: The Solstice Badger Robin McFadden, 2014-04 The Solstice Badger tells the tale of the days when the Sun shone all day long, every day. In the beginning, The Sun roamed the earth happy and filled with joy, but eventually he became terribly lonely and sad, and his light began to dim. Aware of his plight, many of the earth's creatures tried to befriend the Sun, only to find his intense heat burned, and prevented them from getting too close. To the Sun's great joy, one day there came a creature that found a way to get close to the sun, and soon the two became great friends. Staying longer and longer each day with his friend, the Sun's absence from the sky eventually caused the skies to darken and snow to fall. All living things suffered. Would the Sun realize his impact on the world's suffering before it was too late? Would he have to leave his only friend and new found happiness forever in order to to save the world? Robin's engrossing tale and ethereal illustrations bring the Sun's story to a satisfying conclusion as he learns that compromise, compassion, friendship, and wisdom will save the day. |
| the solstice badger: Sun Bread Elisa Kleven, 2004 Missing the sun during winter, the baker decides to bring some warmth to town by making sun bread. Everyone, including the sun itself, wants to share! Includes rhyming text, colorful illustrations, and a recipe for baking your own sun bread. |
| the solstice badger: The Summer Solstice Ellen Jackson, 2003-08 Describes the history and festivals of the summer solstice around the world. |
| the solstice badger: The Shortest Day Susan Cooper, 2019-10-22 In this seasonal treasure, Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper’s beloved poem heralds the winter solstice, illuminated by Caldecott Honoree Carson Ellis’s strikingly resonant illustrations. So the shortest day came, and the year died . . . As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again. Written for a theatrical production that has become a ritual in itself, Susan Cooper’s poem The Shortest Day captures the magic behind the returning of the light, the yearning for traditions that connect us with generations that have gone before — and the hope for peace that we carry into the future. Richly illustrated by Carson Ellis with a universality that spans the centuries, this beautiful book evokes the joy and community found in the ongoing mystery of life when we celebrate light, thankfulness, and festivity at a time of rebirth. Welcome Yule! |
| the solstice badger: Snow Party Harriet Ziefert, 2014 When the first snow of the year falls on the first day of winter, all the snow people have a snow party. |
| the solstice badger: One Winter's Day M. Christina Butler, 2012-08 Hedgehog helps his friends during a storm and they repay his kindness when he needs a new nest. |
| the solstice badger: Lightbringers Karin Celestine, 2020-10-10 The first in a series of four titles based on the seasons, nature and folklore, The Lightbringers is a story of hope centring on the notion that the light will always return, even in the darkest of days. The midwinter solstice provides the focal point for a journey by the little creatures as they seek to return light to earth, but it is a journey that evokes the traditions of the Mari Lwyd walking the villages of Wales and Wassail songs being sung in the orchards. Made up of two key parts, this book contains the story of The Lightbringers and a brief introduction to the myth and legend surrounding the season and festivals of midwinter. Suitable for readers of all ages. |
| the solstice badger: The Bookman's Manual Bessie Graham, 1928 |
| the solstice badger: Iliana, a Winter Solstice Tale Walter Fordham, Tatjana Krizmanic, 1995 |
| the solstice badger: Bookman's Manual Bessie Graham, 1928 |
| the solstice badger: A Handful of Quiet Thich Nhat Hanh, 2008-09-13 A playful, illustrated guide to one of the best known and most innovative meditation practices for young children experiencing stress, difficulty focusing, and difficult emotions Developed by Thich Nhat Hanh as part of the Plum Village community’s practice with children, pebble meditation is a playful and fun activity that parents and educators can do with their children to introduce them to meditation. It is designed to involve children in a hands-on and creative way that touches on their interconnection with nature. Practicing pebble meditation can help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude, and can help children deal with difficult emotions. A Handful of Quiet is a concrete activity that parents and educators can introduce to children in school settings, in their local communities or at home, in a way that is meaningful and inviting. Any adult wishing to plant seeds of peace, relaxation, and awareness in children will find this unique meditation guide helpful. Children can also enjoy doing pebble meditation on their own. |
| the solstice badger: The Ecowarriors Sandra Dreis, 2015-10-30 On rare occasions, a writer makes a first appearance on the literature scene and the reader feels the excitement of meeting a new friend. In her debut novel, The Ecowarriors, Sandra Dreis creates young characters with voices that ring true and a story that is perfectly timed to entertain. Setting the fantasy against the background of the all-too-real problem of fracking is nothing short of brilliant. Leigh Somerville, Author, It All Started with a Dog (trilogy, Second Wind Publishing) Davie Wyatt, born into a family of scientists, is forced to imagine a world without Wisconsin. Uncontrolled sand mining is taking over the state, threatening to destroy the lands natural beauty. Two badgers, leaders of a royal underground dynasty, choose Davie and his buddiesCarl, Sharon, and Melissafor a vital mission. With the powers given to them by the badgers, the four youths must defeat an evil force that will rise from Devils Lake on the eve of the Winter Solstice . Suddenly, vacation plans morph from the ordinary to the fantastic as the four experience a daring cross-country ski excursion, uncover clues from petroglyphs on a cave exploration, and survive a bizarre ice-fishing adventure. Will they be able to put these clues together in time? In the background, Grandpa John, a retired geologist, and his old friend, Avery, an Ojibwa storyteller, play important roles. As the young eco-warriors find themselves with the ability to fly, they face the enemy at Devils Doorway, a landmark rock formation high up on the dangerous cliffs over the lake. Battling the forces of a giant sand monster, the teenagers will discover the truths that lienot only below the surface of the Devils Lakebut within themselves. |
| the solstice badger: Listen to the Wind Greg Mortenson, 2009-01-22 Greg Mortenson stumbled, lost and delirious, into a remote Himalayan village after a failed climb up K2. The villagers saved his life, and he vowed to return and build them a school. The remarkable story of his promise kept is now perfect for reading aloud. Told in the voice of Korphe’s children, this story illuminates the humanity and culture of a relevant and distant part of the world in gorgeous collage, while sharing a riveting example of how one person can change thousands of lives. |
| the solstice badger: It's Summer! Linda Glaser, 2011-08-01 Simple text and bold, beautiful paper sculpture convey the animal life, plant life, weather, and clothing, as well as the colors and feelings, associated with the summer season. |
| the solstice badger: Bringing Hygge into the Early Years Kimberly Smith, 2022-02-21 Bringing Hygge into the Early Years is a “how-to” guide for every early educator who wishes to bring more calmness and balance into their day, in turn, leaving them feeling empowered to teach and live well. Drawing from the author’s experience of embracing the Scandinavian way of living well, “hygge,” this book explores how this approach can have a positive impact across your early years setting, from improved mental health and wellbeing, to embracing child-led play and high-quality outdoor provision. With step-by-step guidance on how to embed the approach alongside examples of hygge from early educators around the world, the book is divided into four main parts: Re-balance you The hygge environment Slow teaching Embracing nature Throughout each chapter, case studies and activities provide the opportunity to reflect on existing practice and support you as you make positive changes to both your wellbeing and provision. This guide will be essential reading for all early years professionals, offering further support to improve mental health and wellbeing, as well as valuable tools to lead early years practice with confidence and joy. |
| the solstice badger: The in STEAM Jerilou Moore, Kerry Holmes, 2021-11-15 Discover new and exciting ways to teach STEM content through the arts in your early childhood program with this innovative and comprehensive guidebook. Chapters feature playful activities divided by age band that bridge early academic learning and social, emotional, physical, and mental development with active engagement in the arts. Structured activities include a materials list, safety concerns, key takeaways, and related readings, as well as explicit connections to research and national standards. With clear and concise lesson plans that walk you through activities in music, dance, media arts, visual arts, and theater, it becomes easy to bring development and learning through movement and creativity to your classroom or program. |
| the solstice badger: The Longest Day Wendy Pfeffer, 2010 In this fourth and final book about the seasons, Pfeffer turns her attention to summer. With lyrical prose and vibrant illustrations, this book takes readers on a journey through the history and science behind the summer solstice. Includes activities. Full color. |
| the solstice badger: Reader's Adviser and Bookman's Manual , 1928 |
| the solstice badger: A Redwall Winter's Tale Brian Jacques, 2004-10 Funloving Bungo the molebabe and his friend Tubspike the hedgehog maid welcome a traveling troupe that visits Redwall Abbey to celebrate the coming of Snow Badger, the Lord of Wintertide. |
| the solstice badger: Full Moon Lore Ellen Wahi, 2017-04-15 Every month has a full moon, and every full moon has a story. Full Moon Lore explores the origins of each full moon's name, from the Strawberry Moon to the Wolf Moon and beyond. Told in rolling prose with delightful nighttime illustrations, this story is a sweet look at nature, seasons, and the mystery of the full moon. Includes Moon Facts and additional back matter. |
| the solstice badger: Night Tree Eve Bunting, 1991 A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime. |
| the solstice badger: 4000 Years of Christmas Earl Wendel Count, Alice Lawson Count, 1997 The history of Christmas starting 2,000 years before the birth of the Christ child and continuing to the present day with information on such customs as decorating with mistletoe and evergreen boughs, the burning of the yule log, and the true story of Saint Nicholas. |
| the solstice badger: Wisconsin Death Trip Michael Lesy, 2016-08-15 First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik. |
| the solstice badger: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History , 1929 |
| the solstice badger: Bimini Twist Linda Greenlaw, 2018-06-26 Jane Bunker returns in Bimini Twist, another thrilling, small-town mystery by Linda Greenlaw set in Down East Maine. It seems like everyone in Green Haven knows that Jane Bunker has scored an invite to the ultra-exclusive Summer Solstice Soiree—and they all assume she’ll be in attendance, as one of the few eligible single women in town. Of course, that’s the last place Jane would like to be; hobnobbing and making small talk with the upper crust isn’t exactly her idea of a good time. She prefers to put in her hours working as an insurance investigator, and part-time as the deputy sheriff. When she gets to work one morning, the sheriff asks her to take a break on her personal war on drugs—it seems that she’s been so successful catching dealers and interrupting the flow of drugs in the area that she’s called too much attention to just how bad it’s gotten, and the community is worried that all the attention on the drug trade will deter the summer tourists that Green Haven so badly needs to keep the economy going. Instead, Jane takes on a missing person case—a young woman working at the Bar Harbor Inn has disappeared. The Inn employs foreign exchange students from all over the world during the busy summer season, and the missing Bianca Chiriac is one of them. When it becomes clear that Bianca isn’t just sleeping off a late-night party, Jane is plunged into the underbelly of the resort town, and must find the missing woman before the worst happens. |
| the solstice badger: The Whale House of the Chilkat George Thornton Emmons, 1926 |
| the solstice badger: Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse, 2021-06-29 Inspired by the civilizations of the pre-Columbian Americas, woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, forbidden magic, and crafted with unforgettable characters, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic fantasy adventure in the most original series debut of the decade. In the holy city of Tova three lives are converging during a solar eclipse, proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man's mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain. -- |
| the solstice badger: Black Girl/White Girl Joyce Carol Oates, 2009-10-13 Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely individualistic scholarship student, an assertive—even prickly—personality, and one of the few black girls at an exclusive women's liberal arts college near Philadelphia. By contrast, Genna was a quiet, self-effacing teenager from a privileged upper-class home, self-consciously struggling to make amends for her own elite upbringing. When, partway through their freshman year, Minette suddenly fell victim to an increasing torrent of racist harassment and vicious slurs—from within the apparent safety of their tolerant, enlightened campus—Genna felt it her duty to protect her roommate at all costs. Now, as Genna reconstructs the months, weeks, and hours leading up to Minette's tragic death, she is also forced to confront her own identity within the social framework of that time. Her father was a prominent civil defense lawyer whose radical politics—including defending anti-war terrorists wanted by the FBI—would deeply affect his daughter's outlook on life, and later challenge her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world. Black Girl / White Girl is a searing double portrait of black and white, of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time. |
| the solstice badger: Stonehenge Rosemary Hill, 2012-10-08 Welcoming 800,000 visitors each year, Stonehenge is the most famous pre-historic monument in all of Europe. It has inspired modern replicas throughout the world, including one constructed entirely of discarded refrigerators. This curious structure is the subject of cult worship, is a source of pride for Britons, and offers an intellectual challenge for academics. It has captured the imagination and the attention of thousands of people for thousands of years. Over the centuries, ÒexpertsÓ have tried to discover the meaning behind Stonehenge. While each new theory contradicts earlier speculation, every new proposal attributes a purpose to the site. From bards of the twelfth century to Black Sabbath, from William Blake to archaeologists of the twenty-first century, Stonehenge has embodied a wealth of intention. Was it designed for winter solstice, for goddess worship, or as a funerary temple? While all have been suggested, even Òproven,Ó the mystery continues. Through the eyes of its most eloquent apologists, Rosemary Hill guides the reader on a tour of Stonehenge in all its cultural contexts, as a monument to many thingsÑto Renaissance Humanism, Romantic despair, Victorian enterprise, and English Radicalism. In the end, the stones remain compelling because they remain mysteriousÑapparently simple yet incomprehensibleÑthat is the wonder, the enchantment, of Stonehenge. |
| the solstice badger: Long Night Moon Cynthia Rylant, 2004-12 Publisher Description |
| the solstice badger: Isleta, New Mexico Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons, 1932 |
| the solstice badger: Laguna Genealogies Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons, 1923 |
| the solstice badger: Nuff Darrell Line, 2015-02-07 Nuff is having a really bad day! Not only is she overweight, with skin problems and a tendency to 'bottom burp' in stressful situations, but she has lost the ability to fly, and that is not a good thing if you are a fairy. To make matters worse, the Solstice parade is in jeopardy. To redeem herself and find favour with the council she embarks on a quest to find a certain unicorn that has gone AWOL.En route, she encounters many strange and wonderful characters, some with disabilities, and some with language and cultural differences. She learns the truth about fairy dust and more importantly, learns who her true friends are and what she is really capable of.Including a touch of cannibalism and attempted murder thrown in, this is a fairy story not for the faint hearted.WARNING: Includes Scary bits! |
| the solstice badger: The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits Ulf Stark, 2014 Grump the Yule Tomte lives all alone, which is exactly how he likes it! He's waiting for Christmas to arrive when all of a sudden a gust of wind steals his mittens from the washing line and his hat from his head. That's the last straw -- he won't be the Yule Tomte any more! Binny and Barty, the rabbit children, live with their family in the forest. They've never heard of Christmas, or the Yule Tomte, until the wind brings them some strange gifts... All the animals in the forest prepare for the arrival of Christmas. They make presents, bake sweet treats and even write a song. But will the Yule Tomte ever bring Christmas to the big forest? This charming and funny Christmas story of a grumpy tomte and the hopeful little rabbits is told over twenty-five chapters -- one for each day of Advent -- with delightful festive illustrations. Perfect for families to share together. |
| the solstice badger: Once a Week Eneas Sweetland Dallas, 1869 |
| the solstice badger: Angel Hill Michael Longley, 2017 A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been the poet's home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades lit up his poetry. This title features his love poems and elegies and includes reflections on the Great War and the Northern Irish Troubles.--Publisher description. |
| the solstice badger: A Year Observed Wilson Stephens, 1984 |
| the solstice badger: A Passionate Sisterhood Kathleen Jones, 2017-09-11 Letters and journals form the basis for this illuminating account of the lives of the women of the Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey households. It tells the story of their passionate attachments, petty jealousies, the deaths of children, the realities of chronic ill health and barbaric medical practice, and the suppression of their own talents. |
| the solstice badger: A Witch's Craft Volume 2: A Witch's Book of Correspondences Viktorija Briggs, 2012-05-07 A Witch's Craft, Volume 2: A Witch's Book of Correspondences is a book of tables for all of the correspondences a Witch will use in their Craft work. A Witch's Craft, Volume 1: Dictionary for a Witch's Grimoire completes the set with all of the terminology, symbols, and cross-referenced correspondences a Witch will ever use. |
Solstice - Wikipedia
A solstice is the time when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around 20–22 June …
Solstice | Definition & Facts | Britannica
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Solstice | Definition & Facts | Britannica
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When is the longest day of the year 2025, what is the shortest night? North of the equator, it's the June solstice. Time and date of the solstice 2025.
When is the summer solstice in 2025? It depends on your time zone.
Jun 10, 2025 · The summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year in North America.
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