Overview

Join in on a joyous walk to the park with this child's-eye photographic exploration extravaganza. Cleverly never showing the child narrator, the reader follows the narrator's green doodle line as she investigates a stick, a butterfly, a feather, a daisy chain and other features, as well as crossing the road and avoiding the cracks in the pavement.

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A beautiful book of photographic images, which tracks a walk through the countryside with narration by an unseen child. The green line connects the route from start to finish. An engaging book to read together after a walk. Irish Times This simple but effective little photo essay would make a lovely first nature book for children of two and up. Financial Times What beautiful weather for a walk in the park, but before you go, what better way to prepare than to read The Green Line. Simple yet stunning, charming, beautiful, delightful, inspired, natural and very special are just a few words that may pop into your head when you read this gorgeous book. ... Every child and parent will be inspired to make their own photo-illustrated book after sharing this one together. What makes this one extra special though is the green line that cleverly runs through the whole book like an emergent writer, drawing and writing about their experiences. Early Years Educator An unusual and distinctive first nature book. Nursery World This unusual and rather beautiful book is a journey in photographs of a child's walk in the park. Each element is vividly pictured: the zebra crossing, wild flowers by the fence, a cloudy sky, a friendly dog, ripples in a puddle and so on. The pictures are so evocative that a pre-schooler would enjoy looking at them alone as well as listening to the simple text. Northern Echo A quirky, attractive book and should enhance any walk in the park with your child. INIS The design is brilliant and the concept is simple: at one level it is an obvious pre-school book of shared experiences, with ssshhh and BOO! to add to the joining in, or an eye-opening aid to seeing the rich wonders of an ordinary walk. Then again it is a superb book of nature photos just as they stand. At any and at every level this is a lovely book. School Librarian With its fresh green palette, this book is a pleasure to read. Enjoy it and be inspired by it. Get out and make your own green line! Carousel Shortlisted: Sure to encourage much enjoyable talk. English 4-11 Book Awards

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Born in London, Polly Farquharson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College of Art. She then spent three years living in Italy working as an artist and translator. Between 1991 and 2003 she was a freelance photographer based in London, regularly contributing photographs of gardens, interiors, people and still life to magazines such as 'World of Interiors', 'Casa Vogue', 'Elle Decoration', 'Blueprint', 'Wallpaper', 'Gardens Illustrated', 'The Guardian' and 'The Times'. Alongside magazine work she also worked as an artist making prints and drawings from her studio in London. Since 2003 she has taken time out to be with her two daughters. The inspiration for THE GREEN LINE comes from the many times she and her children have enjoyed roaming across Hampstead Heath. The photographs were all taken on the Heath and the green line came from the idea of tracing one's own path on a small journey.

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