![]() She is concerned with sharing her sense of wonder, and she does this by indulging the reader with expressive, colorful descriptions of nature. For Nezhukumatathil, these descriptions aren’t just important, they’re the main event. Iridescent blue feathers on the superb’s head flash extra blue as they catch the sun, little eyes against the black oval of its nape” (134). The bird of paradise boasts “one of the showiest displays in the entire animal kingdom. The touch-me-not has “delightful pinnation, double-leaf pattern feathering outward then inward from both sides of a single stem, and spherical lavender-pink flowers” (25). Every chapter contains a vivid description of its titular organism. ![]() ![]() Just as much as World of Wonders is about her and her stories, it is a display of vivid language and a compendium of unique natural phenomena. ![]()
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