Cloud Chronicles: Baby Cloud Comes Down to Earth

by Ruth Stone

Sail along with "Baby Cloud" who decides that heaven is not the place she would rather be. Fly with her as she visits the "Deep Blue Sea" and plays with a manatee. Get ready to yell as "Baby" has a stinging experience under a tree. Definitely don't miss all the other animals having fun with "Baby Cloud" until something rumbles their way.

28 pages, Paperback

Published August 27, 2020

About the author

Ruth Stone was an American poet and author of thirteen books of poetry. She received the 2002 National Book Award (for her collection In the Next Galaxy), the 2002 Wallace Stevens Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Eric Mathieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets, a Whiting Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Delmore Schwartz Award, the Cerf Lifetime Achievement Award from the state of Vermont, and the Shelley Memorial Award. In July 2007, she was named poet laureate of Vermont.

After her husband committed suicide in 1959, Stone was forced to raise her three daughters alone as she traveled the US, teaching creative writing at many universities, including the University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, University of California Davis, Brandeis, and finally settling at State University of New York Binghamton.

She died at her home in Ripton, Vermont, in 2011. She was 96 years old.