Journey into the world of imagination with Sophie Sheppard, local author and illustrator of The Moon's Tear: A Desert Night's Dream (Baobab Press, 2021). As part of the Friends of Nevada Wilderness’s annual Dark Sky Fest, this family-friendly reading will take place at 333 Family Ranch in Cedarville, CA. This event is free and open to the public. No dogs please; this is a working ranch. Find the full schedule of Dark Sky Fest events on the Friends of Nevada Wilderness website below.

Nevada Humanities and its Nevada Center for the Book selected The Moon's Tear: A Desert Night's Sky by Sophie Sheppard (Baobab Press, 2021) to represent Nevada as its youth title at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival, taking place in Washington, D.C. on August 24, 2024. The Moon's Tear will be included as part of the Library of Congress Center for the Book’s national Great Reads from Great Places initiative, a list which includes books for youth and adults from each affiliate center from the 50 states and six U.S. territories.

This program is made possible with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Chief Officers of State Library Agencies.

About Sophie Sheppard

A third-generation painter, Sophie Sheppard lives and works in the remote northwest corner of the Great Basin where the distances are vast and the silences are deep. Her paintings and writing are place-based in this land where she, her husband, Lynn Nardella, and three generations of their family practice regenerative agriculture and put carbon back in the soil where it belongs. This story is based on a dream she had while sleeping under clear desert night skies.