Bag in the Wind

by Ted Kooser and Barry Root

Book Overview

In a singular first children's book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople's lives.

One cold morning in early spring, a bulldozer pushes a pile of garbage around a landfill and uncovers an empty plastic bag -- a perfectly good bag, the color of the skin of a yellow onion, with two holes for handles -- that someone has thrown away. Just then,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763630012
• ISBN13: 9780763630010
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.5" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3