Where The Forest Meets The Sea

Author : Jeannie Baker
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988-05-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688063632

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Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker Pdf

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 in North Queensland, Australia. We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when extinct and rare animals lived in the forest and aboriginal children played there. But for how much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders? Jeannie Baker's lifelike collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to an exotic, primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now being threatened by civilization.

Author : Glendy Vanderah
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1503904911

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Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah Pdf

After 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. When a mysterious child shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have.

Author : Jeannie Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Big books
ISBN : 1844285189

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The Hidden Forest by Jeannie Baker Pdf

Looking for his lost fish trap, Ben sees something dark moving under the water and dives in to explore what it is, and discovers a hidden forest of kelp and the creatures that live nearby.

Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316052603

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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book) by Grace Lin Pdf

A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!​ A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time​! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.

Author : Vincent Hunt
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912866939

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Blood in the Forest by Vincent Hunt Pdf

With original research and interviews with survivors, a journalist reveals the brutal yet forgotten battles in Latvia during the final months of WWII. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles in the fields and forests of Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Just an hour from the capital Riga, German forces bolstered by Latvian Legionnaires were trapped with their backs to the Baltic. Forced into uniform by Nazi and Soviet occupiers, Latvian fought Latvian – sometimes brother against brother. Hundreds of thousands of men died for little territorial gain in unimaginable slaughter. When the Germans capitulated, thousands of Latvians continued a war against Soviet rule from the forests for years afterwards. An award-winning documentary journalist, Vincent Hunt travels through the modern landscape gathering eye-witness accounts, piecing together the stories of those who survived. He meets veterans who fought in the Latvian Legion, former partisans and a refugee who fled the Soviet advance to later become President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga. A survivor of the little-known concentration camp at Popervale details his escape from a death march and subsequent survival in the forests with a Soviet partisan group - and a German deserter. With detailed maps and expert contributions alongside rare newspaper archives, photographs from private collections and extracts from diaries translated from Latvian, German and Russian, Hunt assembles a ghastly picture of death and desperation in a nation both gripped by war and at war with itself.

Author : Roy Toft,Trond Halvor Larsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 0981602827

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Osa, where the Rainforest Meets the Sea by Roy Toft,Trond Halvor Larsen Pdf

Author : Anna Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134763795

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Where Land Meets Sea by Anna Ryan Pdf

Drawing together philosophical, empirical and academic thinking, this book focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self and surroundings. It details research undertaken at two coastal sites, the South Wall in Dublin city and the Maharees peninsula in Co. Kerry, Ireland. Sixty-two participants were engaged in photography and drawing to enable this exploration of spatial experience. The participants' photographs and drawings present how spatial sensibilities can be revealed by becoming more attentive to the immediacy of bodily knowledge: our more-than-cognitive experience. Their communications resonate with the philosophers and theorists considered, including Merleau-Ponty, Edward Casey, Gilles Deleuze, Dalibor Vesely, and contemporary cultural geographers. From exploring the experienced spatiality of the meeting of land and sea, this book begins to suggest an alternative politics of the coast.

Author : Werner Sonne
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1542043913

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Where the Desert Meets the Sea by Werner Sonne Pdf

An illuminating and heart-stirring historical novel set in post-WWII Palestine, where the boundaries of love and friendship are challenged by the intractable conflicts of war. Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, arrives in Mandatory Palestine, seeking refuge with her only remaining relative, her uncle. When she learns that he has died, she tries to take her own life in despair. After awakening in the hospital, Judith learns that Hana, a Muslim Arab nurse, has saved her life by donating her own blood. While the two women develop a fragile bond, each can't help but be drawn deeper into the political machinations tearing the country apart. After witnessing the repeated attacks inflicted on the Jews, Judith makes the life-changing decision to join the Zionist fight for Jerusalem. And Hana's star-crossed love for Dr. David Cohen, an American Jew out of his element and working only to save lives, will put her own life in danger. Then the political situation worsens. When tensions erupt, a shocking act of violence threatens Judith and Hana's friendship--and the destinies of everyone they love.

Author : Bob Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1899248412

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Greetings from Sandy Beach by Bob Graham Pdf

Author : Jeannie Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0744594758

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The Story of Rosy Dock by Jeannie Baker Pdf

An introduction to environmental awareness describes how a single rosy dock garden in Australia was spread throughout the country on the wind, threatening the native plants and animals in the southern, central, and western regions.

Author : Lynne Cherry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152026142

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The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry Pdf

The many different animals that live in a great Kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.

Author : Jeannie Baker
Publisher : Walker Books Limited
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Big books
ISBN : 0744594871

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Window by Jeannie Baker Pdf

In this text a mother and baby look through a window at a wilderness. With each page the boy grows and the scene changes, by the time he is 20 the view is of a city. He gets married and has a child and moves to the country, where father and child look through the window at the wilderness outside.

Author : Jeannie Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Bar-tailed godwit
ISBN : 1406382906

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Circle by Jeannie Baker Pdf

In an infinity of sky, tiny godwit birds follow ancient, invisible migratory pathways, flying on and on for nine nights and nine days, flying without rest... This is their story. "A breathtaking picture book" The Bookseller From the creator of the critically acclaimed Where the Forest Meets the Sea and Mirror, comes a poetic, eco-conscious picture book which explores the complex, interdependency of nature. This is the story of the little-known Bar-tailed Godwit who, following invisible pathways that have been used for thousands of years, undertakes the longest unbroken migration of any bird, a total of 11,000 kilometres, flying from their breeding grounds in Alaska across the Pacific Ocean to Australia or New Zealand. Facing hunger and treacherous conditions to reach their destination, their flight is one of bravery, tenacity and strength, and Jeannie's stunning mixed media collages, inspired first-hand by the spectacular landscapes of Alaska and China, will amaze readers, and take them on an extraordinary visual journey to the corners of our Earth.

Author : Gabrielle Tozer
Publisher : Angus&Robertson
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1460752406

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Peas and Quiet by Gabrielle Tozer Pdf

Best friends Pip and Pop live in a peapod, but sometimes it can get a little too cosy - especially because they are so different! Pip loves to sing, while Pop won't stop snoring. How are they ever going to work out how to live together? From award-winning author Gabrielle Tozer and illustrator Sue deGennaro comes the perfect book about friendship and learning how to get along. Ages 3+

Author : Jeannie Baker
Publisher : Walker
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Big books (Children's books)
ISBN : 1406305480

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Belonging by Jeannie Baker Pdf

As in the author's previous picture book, Window, this book is observed through the window of a house in a typical urban neighbourhood, each picture shows time passing. This is Window in reverse, with the land being reclaimed from built-up concrete to a gradual greening.