The window book jeannie baker5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ``By the year 2020,'' Baker says in a concluding note, ``no wilderness will remain on our planet, outside that protected in national parks and reserves.'' Her distinctive collages are extraordinary in their complexity, but children will need an adult to explain how, ``by understanding and changing the way we personally affect the environment, we can make a difference.'' All ages. At the end of the book Sam holds up his baby to a new window where the tree-filled landscape contains an ominous sign advertising a new subdivision. y Window : An Australian Outlook Christopher John Kirkbright, John Vandenbeld, Sydney: Royal Botanic Gardens, (Sydney, N.S.W.), 1991 Z998034 1991 anthology criticism Abstract From May 1991- August 1992 an exhibtion on Jeannie Bakers picture book Windows travelled to seven Australian cities and towns. ![]() Each spread features the window of Sam's room, from which the reader can see the landscape being destroyed as Sam grows up-forest and animals are replaced by neighbors and houses, factories are built, graffiti is scribbled on walls and other problems indigenous to populous cities appear. The creator of Where the Forest Meets the Sea offers another warning about the environment-somewhat didactically-in this wordless picture book. ![]()
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