Beyond Boundaries · Essays and Tidbits From Nancy Bo Flood

White flower Nancy Bo Flood

Memorial

November 11, 2025

How many have died protecting our liberties? Speak out. For yourself. For those who have already been silenced.

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Leaf Town Forever Betsy Bowen Kathleen Rooney Beth Rooney University of Minnesota Press

Let’s Pretend

November 4, 2025

Let’s pretend! How often we hear these words from children. How magical to be able to create a world and endless stories out of anything … let’s pretend and imagine…

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How the Forest Feels: Sensory Play Nature's Way by Wendy Silvano and Mirka Hokkanen

How the Forest Feels

October 28, 2025

A delightful picture book to share with children and then invite them, even the most reluctant ones, to come along for an outside adventure.

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How does autumn taste?

October 7, 2025

How does autumn taste? Feel? Look?

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Wings of an Eagle

Billy Mills, Wings of an Eagle

October 3, 2025

I spent an unforgettable hour at the South Dakota Book Festival listening to Billy Mills, Olympic gold medalist.

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Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and Nancy Bo Flood

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

October 2, 2025

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux, has a new book!

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Nancy Bo Flood Badger Clark book South Dakota Festival of Books

Thank you!

September 30, 2025

South Dakota Humanities Council, thank you! What a gift to be part of your 2025 Festival of Books.

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Badger Clark by Nancy Bo Flood

Badger Clark: Poetry Wrangler

August 25, 2025

New Book from Nancy Bo Flood and Jeanne Bowman. Badger Clark (1883–1957), South Dakota’s first poet laureate, is best known for his “A Cowboy’s Prayer,” erroneously attributed to Anonymous and a mainstay at rodeos across the United States. After spending much of his childhood in Deadwood, SD, Badger escaped a harrowing experience in Cuba and then found his vocation as a cowboy and a poet in Arizona. He had a way of expressing that smooth, rolling, clip-clop rhythm of horse and rider. Publication Date: September 9, 2025. Available for Preorder now.

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The Matchbox Diary

My Overflowing Book Basket, midsummer

July 15, 2025

Oh, I wish I could pick “what I like the most” at my grandparent’s home and then sit next to them as they told me its story.

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Missing Momma by Winsome Bingham and Rahele Jomepour-Bell

My Overflowing Book Basket, part two

June 24, 2025

Here are two more books for your summer reading. My recommendations are short and sweet but high in praise.

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The Bletchley Riddle

My Overflowing Book Basket

June 17, 2025

In which I recommend two books to enjoy while sitting in the shade on a summer afternoon.

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Truth

May 26, 2025

This Memorial Day is especially meaningful as I reflect on the many people in my family — in our country — through many generations, who have given years of their lives to protect democracy and freedom for us.

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