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how it shapes the human experience

Francis helps readers harness some of the mothering energy they've been directing toward their children and redirect it back toward nurturing themselves

Passed orally from storyteller to storyteller for hundreds of years

Out of the Blue Jeanne Birdsall Mara begins to create aGraceful, succinct prose and engaging illustrations trace the evolution of life on Earth out of the blue and back again. Clear and inviting nonfiction prose, vetted by scientists together with lively illustrations and a time line narrate how life on Earth emerged out of the blue. It began in the vast, empty sea when Earth was young. Single celled microbes too small to see held the promise of all life forms to come. Those microbes survived billions of