Prince George and the Moonchildren

This is a magical story of a flying dog that lives on the MOON and his adventure to EARTH. Prince George wishes to travel and discover a new WORLD. At the MOON festival he is offered the chance to travel to Earth with his magical powers. He can choose to go anywhere! He finds himself in a place he never thought he would discover. This book is a discovery of the art of storytelling and the importance of curiosity and learning about our relationship with the universe as artists. This book is a teaching tool and is designed according to the U.S. National Education Association Standards. This innovative way to build a connection to curiosity through the power of learning sustained in storytelling will benefit children for generations. For over thirty years, I have been teaching within the United States educational system-training visual arts teachers and rescuing Great Pyrenees dogs in the Northwest. This work taught me to look closely at two seemingly separate systems. But they're not separate at all.

Closed systems destroy everything unlike themselves. Art opens those systems. Prince George was created to build a bridge between all beings on Earth and challenge the hierarchical belief that humans stand alone. This story honors Indigenous Knowledge Systems-a way of living where humans and animals create together in community, where art and science move as one language. Throughout this book, you'll find Salish translation for "the dream in the spiral"-sqilw [skay-loo]-the Okanagan word for ourselves. It means we recognize our individual expressions as the continuation of human daydreaming. Our lives and the natural world are tools of a vast human dream mind moving into the future. We must care for our planet Earth and its connection to the universe by connecting to future generations through storytelling. This story celebrates human imagination and creative expression in a time of artificial intelligence. Educational systems are being redesigned by technology-not by research on how children actually learn and apply, and share. The ability to learn, and the human capability to apply it, is not a fantasy. It's an incubation of creativity plus experience. It's artful living.

The story of Prince George and the Moon Children builds a connection with children (and with adults who remember being children) to foster community and collaborative protection of our planet. It keeps the joy of artful living, passion for reconnecting with Earth, and asks an important question: What if our educational system was designed to create artists, not test-takers?

This is for our health. For our minds. For our spirits. For humans, animals, and planet protection.

Standards and curricula aim for clarity and specificity in education. Guided instructor application of Key ideas determine how knowledge is organized and generated within a discipline. These deeper structures inherent in the discipline of learning serve as a means for connecting the particulars and historically measure learning.