About This Book

A child is drawing and thinking at the kitchen table as her mother prepares the evening meal. The room is warm, and light is all around them-in the windows, on the toaster, stovetop, teapot, and calendar. The reflections are identical to those made by her mother's head lamp that she wears deep in the dark earth...she is a miner. The ending shows a young girl who is at once proud, awed, and worried about her mother, inside a light-flooded mountain made of blankets, revealing what she has been drawing all evening: a picture of her mother in work gear.