Jeannie Baker, both
author and artist for Where The Forest Meets The Sea,
is a talented creator. The illustrations are also stand-alone pieces
of collage art. She collected materials from Daintree Wilderness in
Australia and researched while there, so parts of the art she used to
illustrate this story are actually from the place the story is about.
This story seems to be in support of leaving the shrinking rain
forest in Australia alone. We follow a boy and his father as they
make a trip to a beach where the forest comes as close to the shore
as possible. This is untouched rain forest. The boy wanders off to
explore the forest.
When the day is over, the boy doesn't want to leave. They will
return soon, so says the father, but will the beach and forest remain
pristine. The author/artist does an amazing job of alluding to the
potential changes.
I enjoyed this book. My children like it, though they don't
understand quite why it's as great as I think it is. I definitely
recommend it.
Have
you read Where the Forest Meets the Sea
by Jeannie Baker? What did you think of it?
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