Children will run outdoors this spring and look up - blue skies, white clouds, balloons and bags…

Bag in the Wind by Ted Kooser, Illustrations by Barry Root Ages 5-8

Even though we are all super-responsible-green shoppers these days and never forget our canvas grocery bags, there are still some plastic bags floating around out there. In his first children’s book, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, follows the journey of one particular “just the color of the skin of a yellow onion” plastic shopping bag.

The excursion of the bag in the wind is dictated by elements and man, and begins in a landfill. Through strong language and detail of a barren landscape the bags fate becomes important as it passes through various recycled experiences,

“It was the very same grocery bag that Margaret had used to collect cans in, but Margaret didn’t recognize it because it looked like every other grocery bag in the world – the color of the skin of a yellow onion, with two holes for handles.”

Mathilda and the Orange Balloon by Randall de Seve, Illustrations by Jen Corace Ages 3-6

“Mathilda had never seen anything so magnificent. At once, something inside her woke up.”

The passion of a young sheep seeing a new color for the first time ignites an imagination that challenges even the most jaded of the elder ewe, “Really, what is orange?” Delicate and playful illustrations from Jen Corace, whose other artwork brought us Little Pea, Little Oink and Little Hoot, charms the gray, gray, gray and green landscape with a bright new hue.

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