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If you look for the word “moon” in Grandfather Twilight, you won’t find it. Even the smallest child knows what is happening when “Gently, he gives the pearl to the silence above the sea.” It did not have to say “moon.” The pictures tell you. I showed the pearl always round, like a full moon. That is the way it needed to be. But we know that the real moon is not full every night. The moon changes. It goes from a crescent moon, to a quarter moon, a half moon, then a full moon, and back again. The moon waxes and wanes. It has phases. If you look on the page where Grandfather Twilight is sleeping in his bed, you can find a crescent somewhere in the picture. A crescent happens when light hits one side of a round object, like a ball. The real moon is like a ball too. A crescent moon is when light hits one side, just along the edge. I put that in the picture as a little secret, to honor the phases of the moon.
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