Ever wonder about the living beings who drive the wild untamable fires in the west? Here is a tale that makes pictures for us all of the powerful beings driving such natural events forward These are important pictures to draw us close to nature in a different way from our ordinary thinking.
The children who helped the elemental world to clean the water and release the water sprites from the Binagatorials in The Invisible Boat I, are called upon once more in this tale of suspense and adventure to help our living earth to tame the Molten Fire Dragon.
Using their invisible boat, a gift from the beings of the earth and their own grandfather, they navigate to the place of most need on the earth - the center of the raging fires in the West.
The gnomes of earth show themselves only to those whom they can trust not to dismiss them as imaginary.
Haven't read the first in this series? Have no fear This plot stands on its own and takes young and old through imaginations beyond imagining.
This book will make you wish to read the first, though This wonder-filled tale helps us all - youngsters in particular - to understand the earth as a living organism in need of all our forces to find balance and cooperation.
The book is for good readers from grade four up to adults and is a fine read-aloud story for children of seven years and older.
About the Author Eric G.
Mueller teaches high school literature and drama at the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School in New York, and he is the Director of teacher education at the Alkion Center there.
Born in Durban, South Africa, he studied literature and history at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
He continued his studies at Emerson College, England, and the Institute for Waldorf pedagogy in Witten-Annen, Germany, where he specialized in drama and music education.
He has published two novels and a collection of poetry.
His love of the living Earth and of children is abundantly clear in this story! www.
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Waldorf Publications The invisible boat and the molten dragon, paperback/eric g. mueller
