Lifelike collage illustrations capture an extraordinary visual journey through a tropical rain Forest in North Queensland, Australia, following a young boy as he wonders about the survival of his primeval wilderness that is now threatened by civilization.
But for how much longer will the Forest still be there, he wonders? Don\'t miss this exquisitely wrought work with a simple, profound message (Publishers Weekly)..
We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when animals that are now extinct or rare lived in the Forest and aboriginal children played there.
My father says there has been a Forest here for over a hundred million years, Jeannie Baker\'s young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest.
Beautiful collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to a primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now threatened.
Lifelike collage illustrations capture an extraordinary visual journey through a tropical rain Forest in North Queensland, Australia, following a young boy as he wonders about the survival of his primeval wilderness that is now threatened by civilization
