Children's picture book with collaged illustrations and short, accessible poems about the wild animals we often find in our suburban yards, city streets, and country house landscapes.Included are the Squirrel, Possum, Deer, Raccoon, Bear, No Elephant, Bat, Rabbit, Turtle, Garter Snake, Earthworm, Robin, Groundhog -- with collaged illustrations and a special poetic form for the Raccoon: the Racku. Primary age group is 6-7 -- but children as young as 3 can be read to and can appreciate the illustrations. This is the first book in the NEIGHBORS series. A companion, NEIGHBORS The Yard Critters TOO, will be published in early 2013. The underlying message of both books is that all creatures have a place in nature.

Neighbors: The Yard Critters, Book 1

Children's Books

Held, George

Animals

Filsinger & Co Ltd

Third picture book in the NEIGHBORS series. Refers to certain fish, amphibians, and mammals we find in our oceans, rivers, lakes, streams, and ponds. Includes short accessible poems and collage illustrations of such critters as the Whale, Seahorse, Snapping Turtle, Minnow, and Salamander. The underlying message is that, like us, these critters need pure water to live, feed, and breed. With blurbs from naturalist Carl Safina and children's musician Jon Samson. Easily held and shared by parents, caregivers, and teachers eager to explore poetry and nature with their children/students.

Neighbors: The Water Critters

Science, Nature & How It Works

Poetry. "BEYOND RENEWAL" has a voice reminiscent of George Orwell, spare, underplayed, observant commentary coupled to small-scale narratives, well-glued and carpentered contraptions...The power of the poem is held tightly to the range of an anti-heroic speech, whose toughly stoic or lightly plangent registers compel our attention without fuss" - Anthony O'Brien. "George Held has not only mastered traditional verse forms that too many of us, I fear, have forsaken - sonnet, cinquain, triolet - he is also master of the sleight-of-hand" - Vince Clemente.

Beyond Renewal

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Cedar Hill Books

Some Birds

Contemporary

Goldfish Press

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