She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. In Glendy Vanderah’s gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.Īfter the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. All ages.Ĭopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. An exquisitely wrought work with a simple, profound message. 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. 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. 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.

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. From Publishers Weekly:Ī boy travels with his father to a tropical rain forest. Jeannie Baker makes her home in Sydney, Australia. 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. 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. Jeannie Baker is the author-artist of a number of distinguished picture books.

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