Window /

By: Baker, Jeannie [author]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Walker, 2002Description: [32] pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780744594867 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Nature -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction. -- Effect of human beings on | Books for very young children, children's picture books & activity books | Children's picture books | Children's / Teenage general interest: Wildlife & habitats | For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 | Interest age: from c 5 years | Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction | Children's / Teenage social issues: Environment & green issues | Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues | Children's / Teenage fiction: Animal stories | Children's / Teenage general interest: Art & artists | Children's / Teenage general interest: Buildings & constructionGenre/Form: Stories without words. | Children's stories -- Pictorial works. | Picture Books.DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: A wordless look at our changing environment, featured on the QCA's Key Stage 2 Schemes of Work list for geography, under 'What I Can See Through My Window'. Stunning and unique mixed media collages will amaze readers in this powerful, eco-conscious picture book by the internationally renowned Jeannie Baker.In this visually compelling look at our changing environment by Jeannie Baker, illustrator of the critically-acclaimed Mirror and Where the Forest Meets the Sea, a mother and baby look through a window at a view of wilderness and sky as far as the eye can see. With each page, the boy grows and the scene changes. At first, in a clear patch of forest, a single house appears. A few years pass and there is a village in the distance. When the boy is twenty, will he recognize the view from his window? Illustrated with elaborate and gorgeous collage constructions, Window is a wordless picture book that speaks volumes.
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Originally published: London: Julia MacRae, 1991.

A wordless look at our changing environment, featured on the QCA's Key Stage 2 Schemes of Work list for geography, under 'What I Can See Through My Window'. Stunning and unique mixed media collages will amaze readers in this powerful, eco-conscious picture book by the internationally renowned Jeannie Baker.In this visually compelling look at our changing environment by Jeannie Baker, illustrator of the critically-acclaimed Mirror and Where the Forest Meets the Sea, a mother and baby look through a window at a view of wilderness and sky as far as the eye can see. With each page, the boy grows and the scene changes. At first, in a clear patch of forest, a single house appears. A few years pass and there is a village in the distance. When the boy is twenty, will he recognize the view from his window? Illustrated with elaborate and gorgeous collage constructions, Window is a wordless picture book that speaks volumes.

Key Stage 2.