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Earth Verse: Explore our Planet through Poetry and Art

Sally M Walker author William Grill illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Walker Books Ltd

Published:1st Mar '18

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Explore the wonders of our planet through poetry and art in this stunning picture book from award-winning illustrator William Grill.

From the hidden wonders of fossilization, rocks and the water cycle, to awe-inspiring spectacles like volcanoes, thunderstorms and glaciers, discover the magnificent ways the world works in this unique and beautiful approach to earth science. Vivid illustrations by William Grill, the Kate Greenaway medal-winning creator of Shackleton's Journey, and illuminating haikus from Sally M. Walker reveal the extraordinary processes that happen all around us. A book to treasure for art- and science-lovers alike.

“[in] a series of elegant, resonant haiku, [Sally M Walker] lays out the essentials of earth science, communicating, with inexorable calm, how vulnerable humans remain to changes in their great habitat.” -- Sally M Walker * The Times Literary Supplement *

ISBN: 9781406376494

Dimensions: 278mm x 235mm x 8mm

Weight: 500g

48 pages