Cool Woods: A Trip Around the World's Boreal Forest

by Ann Love and Jane Drake

Book Overview

Winner of the Skipping Stones Honor Award in the Ecology and Nature Books category The boreal forest is the last great forest wilderness on earth. It drapes across the subarctic right around the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887766080
• ISBN13: 9780887766084
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

We Have Our Own Tropical Forest

This is a wonderful look at one of the globe's ecological treasures. Filled with facts, activities and even magic, it invites young people to learn about the globe's "Green Crown". We hear a lot about the importance of tropical rainforests. The magical boreal forest is as interesting as any tropical forest. And for those of us who live in the northern parts of North America, this delightful forest is at our doorstep. "Cool Woods" is an imaginative, interesting and at times inspiring look at the boreal forest. And, as you read this, there are threats to this forest. Like the rest of the natural world, some areas of the boreal forest are under relentless attack. And the more young people know about this remarkable northern forest, the more they will resist it being destroyed for short-term gain. "Cool Woods" is a cool - and important - book.

A narrowed focus on woods around the top of the globe

There are plenty of children's books about forests, but Cool Woods: A Trip Around The World's Boreal Forest is something different: it offers a narrowed focus on woods around the top of the globe from North America to Siberia and Europe, and it provides a regional focus allowing kids to consider not just natural history, but history, folklore, and plants as well. The black and white and color artwork throughout by Andrew Kiss is gorgeous: Kiss spends much of his time viewing wildlife in its native habitat and his background lends to these exquisite illustrations.