Last leaf first snowflake to fall / Leo Yerxa.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2012Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:- 1554981247
- 9781554981243
- PZ7.Y497 Las 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Youth Collection | SB455 .Y47 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800169781 |
A poem.
Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall" takes us on a dreamlike voyage into nature at that secret moment when fall turns into winter. We find ourselves in a kind of paradise, which humans may be part of but which they have not despoiled. A Native father and son lead us through forests, down rivers, over lakes and ponds. Along the way we experience the primordial beauty of the physical world. This is nature as we all feel in our hearts it must once have been.
The textural quality and luminous colors in the illustrations capture the feeling of a late fall journey on foot through the forest and then over the water by canoe to a place untouched by other people, and finally the magic of waking to a new season in a snowy grove of maple trees. (Miller Library Staff)
Recommended for preschool (age 0-5) and primary school (age 6-12).