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In this irresistible book, artist and designer Barbara Klunder puts her own spin on familiar children's favorites. Rock-a-bye baby laments the loss of her treetop to logging. Old Mother Hubbard must resort to a food bank. Jack and Jill discover their well water is polluted, while Mary watches her garden flourish with weeding and fertilizing. Second-hand smoke, recycling, allergies, logging, pollution, oil spills, gasoline shortages, and crooked politicians are all treated with Klunderesque whimsy and wit. Striking, spiky black-and-white illustrations drive the point home what are humans doing to the planet?Klunder, Barbara Wyn is the author of 'Other Goose Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Times', published 2007 under ISBN 9780888998293 and ISBN 0888998295.
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