{"id":1191,"date":"2017-04-17T22:14:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/hearthwitchdownunder\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:30:54","slug":"grandma-ostara-storm-pagan-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hearthwitchdownunder\/2017\/04\/grandma-ostara-storm-pagan-childrens-book.html","title":{"rendered":"Grandma and the Ostara Storm &#8211; A Pagan Childrens Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Earlier this month I received a message on Facebook asking if I would like to read a free copy of a digital Pagan kids book, and if I liked it to share it in my Pagan Homeschooling group.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the message went to that stupid requests folder and I didn\u2019t know about it until today.\u00a0 A pity, as it would have been better to read and review closer to the northern Ostara date.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1193\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1193\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/690\/2017\/04\/51dGIKy8tkL.jpg\" alt=\"Grandma and the Ostara storm, a Pagan kids book\" width=\"206\" height=\"329\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The Basics<\/h2>\n<p>Grandma and the Ostara Storm was written by Anita Louise McCormick and was released on March 28th, 2017.\u00a0 The book is approximately 19 pages long and is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 10 years old.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grandma-Ostara-Storm-Louise-McCormick-ebook\/dp\/B06XXKD43V\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">It\u2019s available on Amazon for the nice low price or 99c (USD)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anita Louise McCormick has been an author since the early 1990s.\u00a0 She has written numerous books, including A Visit From Oscar: A Short Story About A Neighborhood Possum, Rats Are Beautiful: A Journal For Rat Lovers, Shortwave Radio Listening for Beginners, The Native American Struggle in United States History, and many other titles.\u00a0 She lives in Maine with her pet cats and rats.\u00a0 She loves feeding the birds and enjoys nature.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon blurb says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOstara at Grandma\u2019s house was always something special. So far, the weather looks beautiful. But Grandma knows the weather better than anyone. And when she feels a storm way down in her bones, we all wondered how soon it would come and spoil everything.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>My Basic Rundown<\/h2>\n<p>It took me about 15 minutes to read this, but that\u2019s mostly because I have a toddler dragging me off and everywhere all the time.\u00a0 I think it would take 10 minutes normally, depending on how much your children would interrupt you reading aloud.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fairly easy read though, probably not too difficult for the average 8-9 year old to read to themselves.\u00a0 It is based in the USA, with references to a few things that may not be entirely relevant to those elsewhere \u2013 such as the temperature being Fahrenheit, and mention of Thanksgiving, Election Day and July 4th.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of, there is reference to some other holidays and festivals and certain weather that may accompany those days.\u00a0 But other than July 4th, there is no mention of any of the months that I can see and even that one mention refers only to rain.\u00a0 This means that when reading this book, you aren\u2019t taken out of your own climate and seasons because of calendar references.\u00a0 Which means, as a seasonal story, this book is very suitable to the southern hemisphere and other places that don\u2019t have the perfect four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>This book is not about the meaning of Ostara nor the history (real or misconceived), it makes no mention of religion, deities or anything like that, making this a great book for secular families while also keeping it relevant for the religious families.\u00a0 This is a great way to be approachable to multiple audiences at once.\u00a0 There is also no mention of Easter, which is wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, this book could perhaps be seen as a story that normalises Ostara as much as Easter is normalised \u2013 it needs no explanation, because it is what it is.\u00a0 The story is simply based on the time of Ostara, but it is actually about the season and the weather.<\/p>\n<h2>All in the Details<\/h2>\n<p>The details in this book is what I really loved.\u00a0 Anita did a really great job of incorporating almost all of the senses into this story.\u00a0 She describes smells, sights, sounds and feelings.\u00a0 By doing this she really captures the whole feeling of spring \u2013 so much so that I almost forgot it was Autumn here and my heater was on!<\/p>\n<p>I have read books that go deep into describing sights, sounds, feelings and the like and they often go too far, where the descriptiveness detracts from the story.\u00a0 But in this story, it doesn\u2019t detract from anything, it enhances it and draws you deeper.\u00a0 It makes you feel it and hear it too, it makes it real.\u00a0 I think she did a great job of keeping the balance when it comes to being descriptive.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that this book doesn\u2019t go into the details about Ostara, the way Anita describes certain feelings and ideas about the weather and seasons, really makes this perfect for Pagan kids.\u00a0 Even if Ostara wasn\u2019t mentioned at all, you would still feel this is great for Pagan kids.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo [grandma, the weather] is a living, breathing thing \u2014 with a personality all its own.\u00a0 They have always shared a special closeness.\u00a0 Almost like a best friend you know even better than yourself.\u00a0 It shares its secrets with her. \u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story really grasps hold of the feeling of the earth, the seasons and weather as being living things.\u00a0 And of course, the fact that grandma has this relationship with the weather, that she has these \u2018feelings\u2019, certainly conjures up ideas of Paganism.\u00a0 And again Anita manages to make it all so normal, when the neighbours listen to grandmas prediction of the coming Ostara Storm and they believe her!<\/p>\n<h2>Good for Homeschoolers?<\/h2>\n<p>I do think this book would be a good one for homeschoolers.\u00a0 There are multiple references to things that can engage the young student and draw them into further study and research.\u00a0 Descriptions of the weather and seasonal things of course.\u00a0 But there is more than that.<\/p>\n<p>At one stage the story discusses dyeing eggs, naturally, and even describes the basics of the process \u2013 which could lead to some fun in the homeschool.\u00a0 There is mention of weather prediction and recording methods, such as with rain gauges \u2013 not only how these are helpful, but how they aren\u2019t always entirely reliable.\u00a0 There is also mention of safety when there is a lightning storm, which might be a good thing for the kids to look into.\u00a0 There are several more things that could lead you off into some fun discussions or study, but I\u2019ll leave those to the book.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing, the illustrations.\u00a0 The illustrations in this book are very simple ones, not super fancy but they are very cute, and fun.\u00a0 I think these ones could actually be inspiring to some young kids, great for trying to copy for some art.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1192\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1192\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/690\/2017\/04\/granma-ostara-storm1.png\" alt=\"Grandma and the Ostara Storm, a book for Pagan children\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front cover and parts of 2 images from inside the book.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Any Problems?<\/h2>\n<p>No book is perfect of course.\u00a0 So let\u2019s take a look at some of the ways this book falls short, and why.\u00a0 The book does make a couple references to school, and it certainly does mean normal school \u2013 so this might be a little annoying to some homeschoolers.\u00a0 It\u2019s not too overt though, so it shouldn\u2019t be a problem for most people, especially not those families who don\u2019t homeschool.<\/p>\n<p>The few references to American things, as mentioned above, such as Fahrenheit and certain holidays, does detract a little bit from the story for those of us who don\u2019t live in America.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not a big deal, and as mentioned the lack of calendar references makes up for that in a big way.<\/p>\n<p>The book doesn\u2019t go into detail about what Ostara is.\u00a0 Yes, this is a good thing and a not so good thing.\u00a0 There are many Pagan parents out there who are looking for books to help teach their kids <i>about<\/i> Ostara, if you happen to be looking for such books \u2013 this is perhaps not the book you\u2019re after.\u00a0 But if you are happy to also have stories that normalise Ostara to the point where it doesn\u2019t need to be described or explained, then this is the perfect book for you.<\/p>\n<p>The story does often go off on sort of tangents, looking into the past for example.\u00a0 Generally speaking these tangents are quite relevant and helpful to the story, but at first it is a little odd to experience, especially considering the length of the book being so short.\u00a0 Reading through a second time though, this doesn\u2019t seem like a problem at all \u2013 and the fact that I was fairly distracted on the first read through, being dragged around by a toddler, maybe didn\u2019t help either.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>So I guess you might say that I personally didn\u2019t have any real problems with this book, except the odd feeling of the tangents on the first read through.\u00a0 And after the first read through, that wasn\u2019t a problem anymore so, it\u2019s not much of a problem at all.\u00a0 The other things aren\u2019t really problems either, just things of note so people know what to expect from the book.<\/p>\n<p>I really do like this story, the way it\u2019s written, the level of detail and I really love the normalisation of 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