Blanca's Feather

"Simple text and color photographs introduce temperature, including how thermometers work and the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales--in both English and Spanish"--

From the water they drink to the trees they climb, kids are connected to the natural world in big and surprising ways. With simple, poetic text and exquisite artwork, this book does more than introduce kids to these connections. It sparks their imagination. It starts conversations, and it delights all ages. Combining the ideas of environmental author Elin Kelsey with the inventive three-dimensional dioramas of artist Soyeon Kim, this remarkable picture book reveals ties that are often sensed yet seldom explained. And in a world dominated by technology, never have these incredible connections...

Essays by well-known climbers accompany a range of superb color landscape photographs that echo the great traditions of the Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club large format books of the 1970s.

Explains the idea of taking turns and emphasizes how important taking turns is to being fair and being a good friend.