Product Description

It is a very beautifully illustrated children's book describing the love, peace and contentment that can be experienced in an ancient old-growth forest. With faeries, nymphs, a Forest Goddess, an Ancient Magician, and other colorful characters, we learn through the eyes of a young girl, why these last remaining forests should be saved, and about the senseless destruction already wrought upon them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3150627 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 40 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781561675586
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Review
"...the point of view expressed in the story is one that needs to be represented...I know this book would prove valuable to my collection..." -- Corvallis-Benton Public Library, Nov 99

"...this story has an unmistakable 'heart' that reaches all who read it...lavishly illustrated with the author/artist's own distinctive full-color work...it is done with love and forgiveness, which, I believe, allows people to listen and judge for themselves." -- Frank Pascoe, author, Turtle Dreaming, Nov 99

"A sensitive and beautifully-illustrated heart-opening book that brings you back to nature - a gift for all ages and seasons!" -- Sacred Media

"This book brings the magic of the ancient redwoods to children and relates their real-world destruction in an honest way...the ancient redwoods are the anecdote to our despair, and through this book, children can come to learn this magic." -- Josh Brown, North Coast Earth First!, Jan 00

"This is a pro-environment book...suggesting that children wake up their parents to what's really important." -- The Beltane Papers, Jan 00

From the Author
The idea first came to me to write this book after having had a spiritual experience, much like the fictitious main character of the book. During a time ion which I was in a contemplative mood, while visiting a redwood forest, I decided to sit at the base of a tree.

While sitting there, opening my mind to the feel of the forest, I suddenly began to feel that I was one with the whole forest. I also felt a strong feeling of love coming from the trees. This experience then subsided, leaving me with a sense of awe.

Nothing can describe the peace, love and wonderment I feel when I am in a grove of old-growth trees of the Pacific Northwest. The smell of the nutrient-rich soil, the beautiful moss and fungi, the stillness, dignity and grandeur of the trees-all bring about a sense of beauty and joy.

Unfortunately, I learned that 96%-98% of redwood trees have already been cut down, and that only half of what remains today are protected in parks. The rest are being logged. Also, many precious old-growth douglas-fir forests in the Pacific-Northwest are being clear-cut. These extremely rich and diverse bio-systems took 12,000, and some, 100,000 years to grow, and would be lost forever if clear-cut.

I then decided to write a children's book...