Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant Style:paperback Mary Oliver published her first

Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28

Splitting and Stacking * In the Toolshed

and celebrate two of the things she loves most - children and nature

meaning you have to have acres of land and hundreds of animals just to sustain one apex predator

Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant Style:paperback Mary Oliver published her firstThere is no night so dark, so black as night in the country. And while the people dream of daytime things, the nighttime world awakens. Owls swoop, a rabbit patters, and in the yard an apple falls pump! from the tree. Listen. Go to the window. Across the field a light glows. Who else is up so late? Who else watches and hears the sights and sounds of night in the country the many stirrings of silence, the many colors of the dark? Lyrical text and