WRITING TEAZURS WITH ANGIE AZUR

By Talking with Trees I've learned a few things. Stories don't grow straight. Neither do roots. They twist and tangle, whisper beneath dirt. Sometimes, something wonderful grows from something rotten. I call it a mulched root. I like strange things. Wild things. Things that won't fit boxes. Here, I write about children's literature, poetry, trees, memory, and what grows beneath the surface. Some of it is about writing. Some of it is about being human. And some of it is about listening to trees.

Books that Speak My Language

(S)KIN
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Alice in Wonderland
Finding Baba Yaga
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth
Mary's Monster
Me(Moth)
Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
Myths of the Sacred Tree
Pet
Remember Us
Scranimals
The Book of Questions
The Canyon's Edge
The Dreamer
The Girl Who Became a Tree
The House with Chicken Legs
The Keeper of Wild Words
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Remember Balloons
The Seventh Raven
The Strange Wonders of Roots
The Things Trees Know
The Trouble with Heroes
The Wild Robot
The Witch Boy
The Women in the Woods and Other North American Stories
This is How You Lose the Time War
Weetzie Bat
Wishtree
Women Who Run with the Wolves

My Favorite Reads

A Crooked Kind of Perfect
A Field Guide to Leaflings: Guardians of the Trees
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls
Ain't Burned All the Bright
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Bad Houses
Better with Butter
Blood Water Paint
Brown Girl Dreaming
Burned
Call Me Tree
Can I Touch Your Hair?
Cinderella and Other Girls Who Lost Their Slippers
Clap When You Land
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Dovey Coe
Elosie
Falling Up
Frizzy
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
Harry Potter
Henry, Like Always
Honeybee Rescue: A Backyard Drama
House Arrest
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
Inside Out & Back Again
Itty Bitty Betty Blob
Lawless Spaces
Listen to the Language of Trees
Long Way Down
Love That Dog
Mary's Monster
Me(Moth)
Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
My Powerful Hair
Myths of the Sacred Tree
Ordinary Hazards
Other Words for Home
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebraging Poets
PET
Poems for You, My Pretty
Poetry Matters
Rainbow Boys
Redwood and Ponytail
Redwoods
Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power
She Had Some Horses
Smoke
The Canyon's Edge
The Evil Garden
The Feminine in Fairy Tales
The Fox and the Horse
The Gardener
The Gashlycrumb
The Girl They Called Monster
The Keeper of Wild Words
The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
The Little Prince
The Madman's Daughter
The Night Gardener
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Poet X
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
The Seventh Raven
The Spirit of Cattail County
The Strange Wonders of Roots
The Things Trees Know
The Way The Light Bends
The Wild Robot
The Witch Boy
The Woman in the Woods
This is How You Lose the Time War
This Moth Saw Brightness
Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems
Trees: Haiku from Roots to Leaves
Walking Trees
Wishtree
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Wonderbook
Writing Picture Books

Quotes to Remember

You've got to be ready to show up and suck before you can show up and shine ~ 40 Days

You fail only if you stop writing. ~ Ray Bradbury

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ~ T.S. Eliot

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ~ Thomas Carlyle

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. ~ George Burns

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. ~ Jules Renard

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. ~ Steven Wright

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down. ~ Christy Turlington

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist. ~ Andrea Bocelli

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ~ Raymond Chandler

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ~ Christopher Reeve

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. ~ James Broughton

More yoga in the world is what we need. ~ Diane Lane

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed. ~ William Wiley

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. ~ Walt Whitman

Melancholy is no bad thing. ~ Sting

Angie Azur | Writer

Angie Azur weaves magic and mystery into stories that inspire young readers to reclaim their inner power. As an art teacher, Reiki practitioner, death-doula, and Priestess Sister, she draws on ancient wisdom, healing rituals, and her explorations of sacred practices to create vivid worlds where the past and future collide. In her writing, witches are allies, magic is a birthright, and courage becomes a key to freedom. With a deep belief in connection, justice, and the power of storytelling, Angie’s tales guide children to uncover their own light in the face of shadow.