New Releases by Catherine Ann Cullen

A delightful and amusing take on an old story that'll have you humming as you read.

Catherine Ann Cullen's interests in folklore, myth and song are everywhere evident in the poems she has published over the past decade. Collected as A Bone in My Throat (2007) and Strange Familiar (2013), her poems are drawn to stories that tell us much about ourselves, and on which our first efforts at making sense of the world are often based.

A girl wearing her favorite coat sets out each day for a week to see what she'll see. And each day, she finds someone -- a giant, a swan, a ship's captain and crew, a wizard, three bunnies, and a small elf -- who needs the help of one of her coat's six magical buttons. But what is she going to do on Sunday, when all her buttons are gone? Catherine Ann Cullen's inventive wordplay and David Christiana's imaginative watercolors create an amazing world where a coat can work wonders for anyone.

A thirsty baby gets his drink but always wants more.