One World
Michael Foreman
Published by Red Fox
0-09-983480-4, £3.99
Two children explore a rock pool and empty it of its organic riches, leaving only pollution. Then they clean up the pollution, repopulate the pool and walk away as the tide comes in to reunite it with the ocean. The link between the tiny and the vast is the core of this simple story. The minute denizens of great whales; the smear of oil on its surface is a reminder of a poisoned world; the children's decision to restore the ransacked habitat promises hope for the earth. This book is a sermon, but one so economical with words and profuse with beautiful illustrations that its message is conveyed as lucidly as birdsong.
Reviewed in BfK No. 77 (November 1992) by George Hunt (GH)
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