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Summary: The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Natur
Review: If you love nature and children, you will love this book. Opal's connection with nature is absolutely amazing and the events of her life, riveting. As a naturalist, I found Opal's diary to be inspiring and enchanting. Although mentally ill, Opal was gifted as a naturalist and an interpreter of nature. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A Child's Mystically Beautiful Vision of Nature's Soul
Review: In a work of searingly connected natural vision, Opal Whitely reveals a nature only seen with the eyes of love. With her child's words of revelation canting several degrees from the world we've been desensitized into accepting, Opal's description of the world of her friends--trees and tiny animals with epic names--will leave you unable to ever again blithely ignore the life songs of the tiny, radiant creatures and plants all around us.
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Summary: Expression
Review: The feeling that Opal Whitely had while she made this book,hasthe feeling of expression.The words of wisdom captured her heart ofthe opticles around her.She openly gave out within her wise choices she made.I think we all could relate to that.We all have to make choices before we do anything in the real world.Choice making is choosing the right decisions before getting a job. You will need materials for it,and that is what she did into making this book,she uses materials.
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Summary: Will change the way you see your own surroundings
Review: This beautiful, lyrical journal, written by a 6-year-old prodigy from the backwoods of Oregon, will have you gazing in wonder at fire hydrants and listening to the song of the subways. Opal has a direct relationship with every tree, horse, rat and blade of grass in her backyard, and is able to see every living thing as a gift from God.The story behind the publication of the journal is a sad one, but the diary itself is timeless and transcendent. Opal may have died in obscurity but her lovely spirit lives on in her work.
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Summary: I knew Opal Whiteley personally. Biography inaccruate.
Review: To me, the diary of Opal Whiteley is truly a masterpiece of American primitive literature. However, I feel the Hoff biography is full of speculation and inaccuracies. Without a single footnote or source reference, he makes statements about her life and origins that are illogical and unprovable. I knew Opal personally for a decade, and knew people who knew he since the 1930's. Opal was never told about the Hoff book, as she would not have approved.
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Summary: Thanks Benjamin Hoff
Review: We all owe Benjamin Hoff a debt of gratitude for discovering this book. If he didn't work so hard to recapture these words in print a very unique voice would have been lost to us... Also this book acts as a beautiful addition to his books on Taoism... For, in a way, here is Taoism in action. For we see the beauty of nature and the world through the eyes of this child. And isn't that something all Taoists strive for? I highly recommend this book. I hope you purchase it and keep the memory and the stories of Opal alive.
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