Marnie, the Kerchief and the Wild Dance

By Margo Maya Small and Ira Baykovska

Marnie, the grand matriarch and her elephant herd have been told that there is a plague spreading across the land. Their kindly human neighbours offer to help prevent them from getting sick by making them special kerchiefs to cover their trunks., However, there is a problem. Although the herd feels grateful for the kerchiefs the human have made, they find it almost impossible to go about their daily routines of living while wearing them. Marnie feels sad and concerned about this and knows she must solve the problem for the sake of the herd. She sets off by herself onto the grasslands to think about what she can do. There, she has a memory of a special dance performance she saw when she was just a calf. This exciting and joyful memory inspires her to do her own dance and this leads her to find a solution to the problems the herd is facing!.Marnie shares her delight and new found knowledge with her eager community. As the herd members follow Marnie's instructions, 8 year old JoJo realizes there is still one problem left that must be solved. Out of his own dance, he arrives at an ingenious solution and gets to remind the herd of a very important lesson about life and living together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665552189

Margo Maya Small

Margo Maya Small is a lover of dance and is a licensed clinical social worker living in Toronto, Canada. She has 30 years of experience providing psychotherapy and counselling to children, youth adults and families and has integrated movement into her practice. She has also taught an organic form of dance called Danskinetics in various settings over a 20 year period to groups of people across the ages. Her passion for movement inspired her to create an original dance narrative for teens which was performed under her direction as part of the opening ceremony at two international medical conferences. Through her own journey with dance, Margo Maya has come to know it as a powerful portal to connecting with ourselves and others. She has found creative movement to bring forth a sense of one's own power, resources, creativity, and to expand one's capacity to experience love, trust and joy within ourselves, our relationships and with the world at large. This is Margo Maya's first fable for the curious and free-spirited child in all of us, regardless of age.

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