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Where Once There Was a Wood
Contributor(s): Fleming, Denise (Author), Fleming, Denise (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0805064826 ISBN-13: 9780805064827
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2000
Annotation: Inspired by events in her own backyard, award-winning author and illustrator Denise Fleming creates a poignant yet hopeful portrait of our disappearing natural environment. Includes an informative bibliography for budding environmentalists and suggests various projects that families can do together. Full color.

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection

Dewey: 639.9

LCCN: 95018906

Age Level: 5-8

Grade Level: Kindergarten-3

Series: Owlet Book

Physical Information: 0.2" H x 9.9" W x 9.7" L (0.50 lbs) 40 pages

Themes:
- Holiday - Earth Day
- Topical - Ecology

Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/29/2000 pg. 84
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2000

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 65377
Reading Level: 2.5 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

A powerful poem and stunning, handmade-paper art encourage children to protect nature.

"Where once there was a wood,
A meadow and a creek . . . "

Inspired by events in her own backyard, award-winning author and illustrator Denise Fleming creates a poignant yet hopeful portrait of our disappearing natural environment. The last pages of the book teach children how to make a more "creature friendly" backyard, including information about what types of food, trees and flowers attract different kinds of animals. Where Once There Was a Wood also includes an informative bibliography for budding environmentalists, and suggests various projects that families can do together.

Contributor Bio(s): Fleming, Denise: - Denise Fleming won a Caldecott Honor for In the Small, Small Pond. She is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, including Buster. She lives in Toledo, Ohio.

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