The Word for World is Forest

“I don’t know.  Do men kill men, except in madness?  Does any beast kill its own kind?  Only the insects… There is a wish to kill in them…”

• Spoken by Selver in The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

Pax

“The scent is my boy’s.  Have you seen him?  Pax shared the most important features of his human–the naked round ears; the towering legs, so improbably long that Pax always feared he would topple over when he ran; the black curled hair that grew to different lengths, then became short again.”

–Pax, by Sara Pennypacker.  Illustrated by John Klassen.