Publisher's Synopsis
HINTERLAND VIGNETTES: Wildlife Poetry
Enter the wild world of lion, wolf, caribou, bear, beaver, bighorn sheep, bald eagle, raven, murrelet, red jungle fowl, orca and more. Their origin, physical features, habitat, lifestyle, diet, dangers and challenges are detailed in stories presented in poetic rhyming meter. Other stories include The Blazing Trail, Pleistocene Dreams, and The Fungus Among UsQueen of oceanic dolphins, Classified Orcinus orca, They are there in every ocean, Though rare to see to any scale, A marine cosmopolitan, The Arctic to Antarctica, Sensational toothed cetacean, Terror of Seas, The Killer Whale
Colorful, realistic illustrations of them are featured at the start of each chapter by Haida artist Gryn White and naturalist Anna Stunkel. Cover art is by west coast landscape artist Dee Gale. Entertaining, educational, moving, clever, and compelling, it is a book hard to put away for any age. It will spark the imagination of the very young and engage all of us to think of ways we can enrich this amazing wild world that sustains us.
