| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
136 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Summary |
Nearly thirty stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces by such notable authors as Natalie Babbitt, Marilyn Sachs, and Jane Yolen illustrated by the likes of Steven Kellogg and Susan Jeffers, demonstrate some of the environmental problems now plaguing our planet, e.g. overpopulation, tampering with nature, litter, pollution, and waste disposal. |
| Contents |
Oh world, I wish / Jane Yolen -- Take time / Tana Hoban -- Last days of the Giddywit / Natalie Babbitt -- The mushroom / H.M. Hoover -- Little whale and Jonah / Marilyn Sachs -- People's gardens : Frederick Law Olmsted and the first public parks / Milton Meltzer -- Watchers / Joanne Ryder -- Deep green gift / Rosemary Wells -- Wetlands / Seymour Simon -- Pigs on patrol / David McPhail -- Earth game / Pam Conrad -- Close encounter / Aliki -- Three cheers for bats / Laurence Pringle. |
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(cont.) Why there is death : a native American story / adapted by John Bierhorst -- Bird / Stephanie S. Tolan -- Prayer for earth / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Limericks / X.J. Kennedy -- Letter from Crinkleroot / Jim Arnosky -- Traffic / William Sleater -- We are plooters / Jack Prelutsky -- From island to island / Lynne Cherry -- Boy who loved to swim / Jean Craighead George -- Me and my weeds / Anne Rockwell -- Elliott's house / Lois Lowry -- Jellies / Ruth Heller -- Bringing the prairie home / Patricia MacLachlan -- A song for Francis of Assissi : patron of ecology / Tomie dePaola -- Dear earth / Karla Kushkin. |
| Subject |
Environmental protection -- Literary collections.
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Children's literature, American.
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Environmental protection -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Aliki.
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Durell, Ann.
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George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012.
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Paterson, Katherine.
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| ISBN |
0525451196 : $17.99 |
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