Blue Corn Books | Theresa J. May
BlueCorn Books
BlueCorn Books is a micro press located in Eugene, Oregon.
We believe imagination helps connect us to the animate world around us and envision our place in it. Our illustrated children’s books nourish a sense of place and celebrate the power of stories to heal and transform our connection to one another and the places we call home.
BlueCorn stories weave … spacious wonder and deep tenderness. Each page is a gentle offering of insights born of different realms of knowing – spirit, feeling, earth, relationship – it’s a kind of magic.
-Kari Marie Norgaard (Mom & author)
Recent books… (more to come - we’re just getting started!)
Becoming BlueCorn
In this first book of the BlueCorn series, we meet BlueCorn, a whimsical ear of blue corn who lives each day with joy and courage. Winding through the seasons, BlueCorn hugs the moon, listens to the river, faces a storm, and finds a sense of belonging in a colorful world.
ISBN 979-8-9894089-0-0
Retail: 18.65 at
Bookshop.org,
Barnes & Noble,
or order from your independent bookstore
Wholesale:
ingramspark.com
(Bookseller’s preferred discount)
BlueCorn & the Lost Wing
In the second book of the BlueCorn Series, BlueCorn finds a lost butterfly wing and goes on a journey to return the wing to its owner. Meeting Raccoon, Ladybug, and Flicker along the way, BlueCorn learns about friendship and the cycles of life.
ISBN 979-8-9894-89-4-8
Retail: 18.65 at Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or order from your independent bookstore.
Wholesale: ingramspark.com (Bookseller’s preferred discount)
All at Once the Onion
Once upon an Autumn time, a yellow onion, swept up by the wind, finds itself among galaxies, and reminds us of the wonders right here on planet Earth.
ISBN 979-9894089-2-4
Retail: 18.65 at Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or order from your independent bookstore.
Wholesale: ingramspark.com (Bookseller’s preferred discount)
Readers’ comments about… BlueCorn & the Lost Wing
Exquisite! A simple, profound journey of letting go and becoming, Blue Corn and the Lost Wing is beautifully illustrated story told in a way that touches the tender heart in all of us. Truly a book that deepens reverence for our sacred human connection with all life.
-Nancy Hopps, award-winning author of All the Courage Love Takes
I love the mystery of BlueCorn and the Lost Wing! Even when the people you love are gone, or need to change their forms, they are still with you. Memories and stories, even maybe wind chimes, remind you they are still here.
-Millie Amos Killingsworth, artist, age 11
In this gorgeously illustrated story, BlueCorn opens our hearts to the tender beauty of grief, while Mouse, Raccoon, Old Flicker, and others show us the many possibilities for responding to and healing from loss.
-Nancy Menning, student of grief & independent scholar of people and place
Theresa’s BlueCorn stories weave perceptions of the sensory world into alchemical tales filled with spacious wonder and deep tenderness. Each page is a gentle offering of insights born of different realms of knowing – spirit, feeling, earth, relationship – it’s a kind of magic.”
-Kari Marie Norgaard, author of Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life
The paintings in this book are so vibrant and full of life. The love and kindness that BlueCorn shows the other animals simply by taking the time to return what was lost… We all need that love and kindness from each other. What a beautiful, moving story, full of love and hope.
-Marta Lu Clifford (Chinook, Cree, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde)