This is a delightful gem of a book, short and charmingly simple, but not at all trivial, on the contrary. I call it simple because it doesn't try to be bigger than it is. Perhaps also because of Mosscap's straightforwardness.

(Protect Mosscap at all cost.)

It's short, sweet, funny, to the point. I read it in a breeze and sat down to annotate it a day later. A Psalm For the Wild-Built offers life lessons that you kind of already carry within you, but are woken up as you follow Dex and Mosscap's conversations, as though you were right there listening in. It felt comforting and reassuring to travel alongside the relatable tea monk and their adorable companion. It's like I have just made two friends for a lifetime.

(Just one little thing I'd like to clarify: it/its is a perfectly fine set of pronouns for humans as well, if chosen voluntarily and not used by others in a deliberately dehumanising way!)