Author(s): Jacqueline Briggs Martin,Claudia McGehee
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 36
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Date Published: 2017-03-07
Dimensions: 229 x 254 x 12.7mm
Publication City/Country: Minnesota, United States
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Once upon a time a creek burbled up and tumbled across a prairie valley. It was filled with insects and brook trout that ate them, frogs that chirruped and birds watching for bugs and fish. This is a true story about a man named Mike who went looking for that creek long after it was buried under fields of corn. It is the story of how a creek can be brought back to life, and with it a whole world of nature. In the words of award-winning author Jacqueline Briggs Martin and the enchanting illustrations by Claudia McGehee, this heartening tale of an ecosystem restored in the Driftless Area of northeast Iowa unfolds in a way that will charm and inform young readers who are drawn to a good mystery, the wonders of nature-and, of course, big earth-moving machines.