This Is the Earth, (Hardcover)

from villemezbrown

Thanksgiving family read-aloud picture book binge. Spanning centuries, pretty nature pictures are encroached upon by industrialization, population explosion, corporate malfeasance, and mass pollution. But all we have to do is recycle our water bottles and plant some trees and problem solved? Too...

from AbigailAdams26

"This is the land, / fertile, alive, / crawling with creatures / That help it to thrive. / This is the river, / flowing and free, / streaming with fish / as it swells to the sea." And so begins this poetic picture-book examination of the beauties of the earth, and the history of human interaction...