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• Commended for Creekfinding 2018

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The main narrative reads smoothly aloud, and the pictures, though detailed, should show well to a small group. Author's and illustrator's notes and a comment from the actual creek rescuer complete the package. A heartening story of environmental restoration. --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p> A heartening picture book that celebrates the thoughtful restoration of a prairie. --<i>Booklist</i></p> A delightful picture book. --<i>Cabin Living Magazine</i> Eloquent narrative nonfiction to inspire the future caretakers of our planet. --<i>School Library Journal</i> The story springs to life through Martin's (<i>Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious</i>) buoyant, personified language. McGehee's (<i>North Woods Girl</i>) vibrant, stylized illustrations show nearly smiling fish, birds, and insects populating their new environment. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p> Chronicling the true story of one man's quest to revive a stream rumored to have run through the prairies of Iowa, Jacqueline Briggs Martin relates the trials and triumphs in <i>Creekfinding</i>, a return to nature that proves that 'a creek isn't just water.' --<i>Foreword Reviews</i></p>

The main narrative reads smoothly aloud, and the pictures, though detailed, should show well to a small group. Author's and illustrator's notes and a comment from the actual creek rescuer complete the package. A heartening story of environmental restoration. --Kirkus Reviews A heartening picture book that celebrates the thoughtful restoration of a prairie. --Booklist A delightful picture book. --Cabin Living Magazine Eloquent narrative nonfiction to inspire the future caretakers of our planet. --School Library Journal The story springs to life through Martin's (Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious) buoyant, personified language. McGehee's (North Woods Girl) vibrant, stylized illustrations show nearly smiling fish, birds, and insects populating their new environment. --Publishers Weekly Chronicling the true story of one man's quest to revive a stream rumored to have run through the prairies of Iowa, Jacqueline Briggs Martin relates the trials and triumphs in Creekfinding, a return to nature that proves that 'a creek isn't just water.' --Foreword Reviews Creekfinding is a beautiful rendering of this inspiring true story of environmentalism in action. --Little Village

The main narrative reads smoothly aloud, and the pictures, though detailed, should show well to a small group. Author's and illustrator's notes and a comment from the actual creek rescuer complete the package. A heartening story of environmental restoration.-Kirkus Reviews A heartening picture book that celebrates the thoughtful restoration of a prairie. -Booklist A delightful picture book. -Cabin Living Magazine Eloquent narrative nonfiction to inspire the future caretakers of our planet. -School Library Journal The story springs to life through Martin's (Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious) buoyant, personified language. McGehee's (North Woods Girl) vibrant, stylized illustrations show nearly smiling fish, birds, and insects populating their new environment. -Publishers Weekly Chronicling the true story of one man's quest to revive a stream rumored to have run through the prairies of Iowa, Jacqueline Briggs Martin relates the trials and triumphs in Creekfinding, a return to nature that proves that a creek isn't just water. -Foreword Reviews Creekfinding is a beautiful rendering of this inspiring true story of environmentalism in action. -Little Village

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Jacqueline Briggs Martin has written more than fifteen picture books including the Caldecott Awardwinning Snowflake Bentley and, most recently, Chicken Joy on Redbean Road and Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table. Claudia McGehee is the illustrator and author of A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet and A Woodland Counting Book. Most recently, she illustrated North Woods Girl.

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