Where the Forest Meets the Sea - Softcover

Jeannie Baker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744513057 ISBN 13: 9780744513059

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

When a young boy visits a tropical rain forest, he pretends it is a long time ago and that extinct and rare animals live in the forest, and aboriginal children play there. But how much longer will the rainforest remain, he wonders?

About this title

About the Author:

A collage artist, picture book author and film maker whose work often has a strong environmental focus.

From Publishers Weekly:

A boy travels with his father to a tropical rain forest. Walking among the trees and vines, he imagines the forest as it might have been in the past, with now-extinct creatures and aboriginal children inhabiting it. How much longer, the boy wonders, will the forest remain? Baker's portrayal of unspoiled nature is both an eloquent plea for conservation and a visual tour de force. Her collage constructions have the life and intensity of photographs; at the same time, they embody the inscrutable magic and spirit of a primeval forest. Dinosaurs emerge, barely perceptible, from a tangle of trunks and vines; the faint outlines of an aboriginal child melt into a background of trees; and, in the final, haunting scene, the unspoiled vista readers have toured is overlaid with translucent images of civilization's worst trappings. An exquisitely wrought work with a simple, profound message. All ages.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0744513057
• ISBN 13: 9780744513059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32