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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.
Author: Denise Fleming
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.70h x 9.90w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780805064827
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 65377 / Where Once There Was a Wood
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/29/2000 pg. 84
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2000
Where Once There Was a Wood -- Denise Fleming, Paperback
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Ages 4-8, Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction, Denise Fleming, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Grades 1-3, Henry Holt & Company, Juvenile Nonfiction, Owlet Book, Paperback, PreK, Science & Nature, Wildlife conservationA 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.
Author: Denise Fleming
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.70h x 9.90w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780805064827
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 65377 / Where Once There Was a Wood
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/29/2000 pg. 84
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2000
About the Author
Denise Fleming has written and illustrated many children's books, including In the Tall, Tall Grass, Shout! Shout It Out!, and Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy. She won a Caldecott Honor for In the Small, Small Pond. Denise published her first painting in the third grade, when she started taking classes at the Toledo Museum of Art and one of her paintings was chosen to be the cover of a teacher's magazine. She now works primarily with paper, by pouring colored paper pulp through hand-cut stencils. She lives in Toledo, Ohio.