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The World Before Names
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2026
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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.
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