The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures - Softcover
Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, birds, jelly fish, and other animals through their senses, not our own.
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Herbert Kohl is a celebrated writer, teacher, and advocate. He is the author of more than forty books, including “I Won’t Learn from You”: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment, Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children’s Literature and the Power of Stories, The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching, Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times, She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching (all published by The New Press), as well as the bestselling classic 36 Children. He is a co-author, with Judith Kohl, of The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures and a co-editor, with Tom Oppenheim, of The Muses Go to School: Inspiring Stories About the Importance of Arts in Education, both published by The New Press. A recipient of a National Book Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, he was the founder and first director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in New York City, has served as a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, and established the PEN West Center. In 2010, Kohl was named a Guggenheim Fellow in education. He lives in Point Arena, California.
Judith Kohl is the coauthor of Pack Band and Colony and of The Long Haul.
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Judith Kohl is the coauthor of Pack Band and Colony and of The Long Haul.
A rare example of how science and philosophy can be fused in a book stretching the minds of readers... -- The National Book Award Citation
Provocative and intriguing. . . . A superb book for families to share. -- Winston-Salem Journal
Provocative and intriguing. . . . A superb book for families to share. -- Winston-Salem Journal
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0684150174
- ISBN 13 9780684150178
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages110
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