Pub Date: February 23, 2010
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2009022088
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 05 to 08
Physical Info: 0.43" H x 7.76" L x 10.46" W ( 0.88 lbs) 48 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Science and Nature | Environment | Lifestyles | Country Life | Recycling and Green Living | Social Themes | Poverty and Homelessness
Description: In his first children's book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kooser follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople's lives. Includes an Author's Note on recycling plastic bags. Full color.
Review Quotes: The exquisitely observed narrative renders the American landscape's dubious symbiosis--nominally natural, persistently industrial--worthy of a child's attention. . . . Root's gouache-and-watercolor pictures, suffused with the pale gold light of early-spring dawns, capture the injured land, its quirky denizens and the bag's familiar--well--bagginess. Wonderful.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)