Hlas Země – Šaňáková Jana Margaret (2021)

A book of poetic fairy tales about the natural cycles that influence the world. In each cycle, there is a hidden element, and in each element, a little fairy. "May at least one child's heart ignite with love for nature and beautiful literature!" The stories of the Voice of the Earth were born thanks to a meadow where a little blue-eyed curly girl ran, often dirty but happy in moments when she talked to ants or chased colorful butterflies. There were so many of them! She often sang with the wind and caressed the trees, tended to the garden with her grandfather, and loved the rain. The little girl grew into a girl, and from the girl into a woman who forgot for a long time to caress the trees and sing to the wind. Her life became sad. Until one day, a butterfly flew into her room, and she smiled like back then and wrote a poem for it. She went out to the fields again and sang to the wind and caressed the trees. She began to feel nature again just like before. She noticed that there were no colorful butterflies in the meadows anymore, and the trees were wilting from the heat and lack of water, and her world became sad again. Sad, but it did not remain the same. She saw and felt what reason had kept hidden. She wanted to show children that today's world does not have to be tomorrow's world if they start to see nature as a source of life, not just as a given. So she wrote about the earth, water, wind, and...