Where the Forest Meets the Sea: A Beautiful Picture Book with Collage Illustrations About Threatened Rainforests for Kids (Ages 4-8)

Baker, Jeannie

ISBN 10: 0688063632 / ISBN 13: 9780688063634

Published by Greenwillow Books, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where the Forest Meets the Sea: A Beautiful Picture Book with Collage Illustrations About Threatened Rainforests for Kids (Ages 4-8)
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688063632
• ISBN 13: 9780688063634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Baker, Jeannie
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

Beautiful collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to a primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now threatened.

"My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest.

We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when animals that are now extinct or rare lived in the forest and aboriginal children played there. But for how much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders?

Don't miss this "exquisitely wrought work with a simple, profound message" (Publishers Weekly).

About the Author

Jeannie Baker is the author-artist of a number of distinguished picture books. Window, the companion book to Home, was a School Library Journal Best Book, a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, a Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year, a Young Australian Best Book, and was short-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her other books include Home in the Sky, an ALA Notable Book, and Where the Forest Meets the Sea, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and the recipient of an IBBY Honor Award and a Friends of the Earth Award in Great Britain. Jeannie Baker makes her home in Sydney, Australia.