Every Moon
The idea: things that come round again can be counted, so you can tell when they will come back.
Read it
One story, three ways: Sprout for a new reader, Grower in short chapters, Reader as a full chapter book. Same plot, same ending.
Who is in this book
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Inkling a child of the Green Names what she notices -
Lan a child of the Green Goes first; makes a friend in a minute
Every recurring character has a short tune, so you can tell who is on stage before a word is said. The tunes play only when you tap, and the Reading Access sound switch turns them off.
The Honest Page
Which parts are true, stretched or made up — and what does nobody know?
True
- At Warren Field, near Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, people dug a row of twelve pits about ten thousand years ago. They were first dug up by archaeologists in 2004. Source
- In 2013 a team of archaeologists explained the pits as a calendar of the moon's phases, lined up with the place on the skyline where the sun rises on the shortest day of winter. They called it the oldest calendar of its kind yet found, made by people who hunted and gathered their food. Source
- From one new moon to the next takes about twenty-nine and a half days, so twelve moons come to about 354 days, about eleven days short of a year. Source
Stretched
- In the story one girl digs all twelve pits in one evening and keeps the count for a winter. What we simplified: Nobody knows who dug the real pits, or how long it took. People at the time hunted, fished and gathered, but nobody knows whether these pits were used to time the salmon.
Made up
- Lan and Inkling, the spark, the buzzing word, the girl, her uncle and the salmon falls are made up.
Nobody knows
- Nobody knows for certain what the pits were for. The calendar is how archaeologists explained them; the people who dug them left no words to tell us. Source
Tell it back
Tell the story in your own words: who was there, what went wrong, and what they found out. Then the letter E, the third of the second word under DOOR goes on your belt.
On your belt: the letter E, the third of the second word under DOOR.
Your belt lives on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Ring the hammer for someone
Pick this book for someone younger. The link carries only the book, and it will wait for them on the Green.