How to Be a Moonflower

By Katie Daisy

How to Be a Moonflower, the new book from bestselling author Katie Daisy, celebrates the magic and mystery of the world at night.

Discover the world that awakens after everyone else has gone to sleep. In this lavishly illustrated book, New York Times–bestselling artist Katie Daisy explores the mystery and magic of the nighttime. Join her on a journey from dawn to dusk, complete with quotes, poems, meditations, field guides to different nocturnal flora and fauna, and charts that map out the cosmos. From night-blooming flowers to cozy campfires, from moon baths to meteor showers, Katie Daisy's lush illustrations capture the beauty that comes to life in the darkness.

BELOVED AUTHOR: Known for her lush, painterly artwork and love of the natural world, NEW YORK TIMES–bestselling author Katie Daisy has 112K followers on Instagram, where you will find frequent posts featuring her vibrant illustrations.

A CELEBRATION OF NATURE: Nature-lovers and plant-appreciators will find much to admire in this book. Illustrating everything from the phases of the moon to fluttering moths, Katie Daisy has a knack for capturing the very best this magical world has to offer.

EXPLORE THE WONDERS OF NIGHT TIME: The nighttime offers time for reflection, exploration, and adventure. This book will help you make the most of those mystical, after-dark hours and observe the hidden wonders that come to life at night

DELUXE PACKAGE: Featuring a tactile two-piece case with silver metallic ink on the spine and back cover, How to Be a Moonflower makes a beautiful gift for the people in your life who look to art and illustration for creative encouragement, self-exploration, and mindfulness.

Perfect for:

• Fans of Katie Daisy's artwork and previous book HOW TO BE A WILDFLOWER
• free spirits
• art and nature lovers
• tarot readers and moon worshippers

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Aug 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781797203348

Katie Daisy

A certified moon-lover, Katie Daisy is an artist whose paintings capture the essence of living in harmony with nature. She lives and works in the countryside near Bend, Oregon. She is the author of the New York Times–bestselling book How to Be a Wildflower, also available from Chronicle Books.

Book preview

The summer sun dips below the horizon.

The temperature drops.

The pink sky melts to lavender and cornflower blue.

Dusk falls.

Out come the fireflies, soft lights rising from the grass. Frogs and crickets sing from the creek. The whirr and buzz of day fade away, and all that remains is this beautiful soundscape, only heard by night.

Before long, other night creatures start to come around: A hooting owl, a scurrying field mouse, a swooping bat. The silver moon rises and stars scatter across a velvet sky. This is when I feel most inspired; this is where I feel most alive.

I’ve been in love with the night for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, my Midwestern summers were full of crickets, campfires, firefly catching, and trying to spot the great horned owl perched upon our barn. Night was, and still is, a daring world full of mystery and the unknown.

The night is vital to my creativity as an artist. The distractions of the day have ceased, and new portals seem to appear. Most others are asleep, and it’s as though I can finally hear the whispers my inner voice has been attempting to tell me all day long.

Night invites us to sharpen our senses: Our listening becomes keener, smells are more aromatic, and we can finally be still with the thoughts and ideas in our minds. The darkness is a cloak, our hiding place. But it’s also a new world, full of discoveries. The night is a muse. She brings us dreams to decipher, secret doorways into our inner selves. Deeply into them we travel, until the light of day tries to steal them away.

This is a book that can help you embrace the beauty of the night, exploring all the mysteries it has to offer. It can help you overcome your fear of the night or dark places. And most of all, it can help you find a certain magic in the unknown—the territory of night that so often goes uncharted.

This book is a field guide to the night. It is best explored from dusk till dawn, in a candlelit bath, by lantern under a sky of stars,