The cottonwood's voice is conversational and has a gentle rhythm for a pleasing read-aloudpossibly in two sessions for the littlest listeners. Even without the additional text, readers learn plenty from the cottonwood's descriptions of such phases as seed, sprout, seedling, sapling, and mature . . .

When lions attack Lynx's camp, leaving only him alive, Quiller must convince the Sealion People elders that Lynx is not a coward who abandoned his peoplefor which the punishment is death. Nightbreaker, the lions' giant and unusually intelligent pride leader, seems to have protected Lynx during th . . .

P-Orridge, who died from leukemia in 2020, was born Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester, England, in 1950. Considering their birth name a "temporary tag," P-Orridge believed that a name change was "a really potent form of magic.