Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder For-Adults she and her best friend

she and her best friend Amanda fantasized escaping their difficult homes and moving to California to become movie stars

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Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder For-Adults she and her best friendABA 2025 Best Book for Young Readers This lyrical picture book biography of beloved American poet Mary Oliver shows young readers ages 7 10 how her love of nature and sense of wonder inspired her art. Young Mary Oliver was enthralled by nature. In the forest, she wondered about the birds and the lilies and the water in the stream about all the things that cannot speak yet somehow spoke to Mary. She wondered, too, about poetry, about how words pieced