Fjord

Fjord is a poetic invitation to read nature the way one reads a book. In a striking fjord, a slender, graceful bird named Catmarin calls together the other shorebirds, a seagull, a cormorant, and a guillemot. He tells them that they all live inside one vast open book, older and more alive than anything in a library, as ancient as their glacier and as fresh as a breath of air. That book is the world around them. Some see only mountains, waves, trees, and rocks, but a careful observer can find the story written there. New snow is as soft and untouched as a blank page, the tall mountain sets the scene, raindrops punctuate the day like commas, and the waves hold the belugas inside them like brackets.