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Our Big Home: An Earth Poem
Illustrated by Elisa Kleven
Lerner Publishing, 2002
ISBN 978-0-7613-1650-3 hardback
(MN Storytime Reader Guide available) ISBN 978-0-7613-1776-0 (paperback)
A beautifully illustrated celebration of the air and water and soil
and sky and sun
and rain that we all share! Long-time Millbrook
favorite Linda Glaser teams with
best-selling illustrator Elisa Kleven
in this clear and direct concept book about
the coexistence of human
beings with other living things in this big home we call
Earth. Linda
Glaser's lyrical life-affirming text is greatly enhanced by Elisa
Kleven's rich, multicultural, visionary illustrations
which depict children, animals,
and scenes from around the world.
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Reading Rainbow created four shows after 9/11 as an "arc of healing."
Our Big
Home was featured on their "Global Unity" show. The Our Big Home Reading
Rainbow show premiered at the United Nations on International Literacy Day.
Linda Glaser (author) and Elisa Kleven (illustrator) signed books at the United
Nations that day and both received a hug from LeVar Burton.
"Glaser's joyous appreciation of the interconnectdness of
all living things forms
the heart of this celebratory picture
book; Kleven's brilliant, busy art gives it its
soul."
-- School Library Journal.
--Reading Rainbow Featured Book Selection
--NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book
--Neumann College Outstanding Merit Award
--Translated into Japanese
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