The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures

Kohl, Herbert R.

ISBN 10: 0316501379 / ISBN 13: 9780316501378

Published by Sierra Club Books, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316501379
• ISBN 13: 9780316501378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, birds, jelly fish, and other animals through their senses, not our own

About the Author

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.