SONG OF THE WILD

🇬🇧 Description:

In this resonant story, Cam the mountain boy follows the river from its trickling source in the mountain snow all the way to the coast. The river leads him through forest, farms, and towns to the salty wind of the sea. Dramatic landscape illustrations evoke a North American landscape and are packed with detail to explore the world of the river.

Reviews:

With graceful, rhyming poetry, Cowley articulates the connectedness of nature, while Andrews renders the rush and earnestness of the boy’s journey through striated light, city smoke, and the broad, blue sea."―Publishers Weekly

(...) this is a beautiful picture book that tells the story of how various bodies of water come together and eventually lead to the ocean. Readers will learn a lot as they observe the way that the landscape changes as the water moves through the mountains to a town, on to a wharf, and then to the sea.(...) A perfect choice for young naturalists and budding scientists interested in the water cycle."―School Library Journal