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Sunday, October 16, 2022

The Journey Home - A Review

 

                                                        Frann Preston-Gannon

A poignant story about the perils of our avarice. Winner of the Maurice Sandak Fellowship award, Frann Preston-Gannon takes us on a voyage with five animals whose habitats are threatened due to our greed and destructive habits. 

Through the eyes of a polar bear, a panda, an elephant, an orangutan and a dodo, Frann explores the plight of animals as mankind threatens their very existence.

Polar Bears: "polar bears and many other ice-dependent creatures are at risk."

Pandas: "Severe threats from humans have left just over 1,800 pandas in the wild."

Elephants: "elephant populations have experienced significant declines over the last century."

Orangutas: "The destruction and degradation of the tropical rain forest, particularly lowland forest, in Borneo and Sumatra is the main reason orangutans are threatened with extinction".

Dodos: "The dodo's natural habitat was almost completely destroyed after people started settling on Mauritius."

Beautifully illustrated and written from the core of the heart. 

                         Image source: www.amazon.com | Pavillion Children's Books

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