When Eeny ponders things she has never seen, she thinks imagistically, like a poet: ‘She wondered if light. The older moles scold, ‘Don’t listen to addlepated centipedes’-using the kind of large, old-fashioned words children love to hear. In its celebration of the duality and complexity of nature, Yolen’s inventive text abounds with wisdom and humor-her imagery and linguistic skills lift the tale far above the ordinary. Finally she burrows out of her hole and experiences spring. “Just as children often wonder about the earth beneath their feet, the littlest mole here sets out to discover the world ‘Up Above.’ When Eeny is told by her sisters that there is light as well as darkness, winter and summer too, she tries to imagine these concepts in familiar terms, envisioning light, for example, spreading like a blanket.
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