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A track is more than just a footprint.Each track tells a story.As you follow the marks an animal left behind, you get to know it: where it goes, what it likes to eat, when it runs, and why.Every set of tracks is unique, as each animal's life is different from every other's.This richly illustrated book introduces young readers to the tracks and the ways of life of thirteen different animals.Betsy Bowen shares the wonder of the northwoods wilderness in this newly designed edition featuring striking multiple-block woodcut prints and new vibrant colors.Life size animal tracks grace each page along with poetic quotes and passages that reveal mysteries of the natural world and inspire respect for its wildlife.Here is a book for young naturalists and beginning trackers, a book that is perfect for a family to share before and after a trek through their own woods.

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The author-illustrator of Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year (1991) takes a second look at the forest near her Minnesota home, once again structuring her material creatively to explicate her theme. Presenting 13 animals, roughly in size order from mouse to moose, Bowen represents their footprints in actual size, provides outstandingly handsome portraits (her woodcuts' stark, angular black is overlaid with luminous watercolors of delectable subtlety), and adds brief commentaries on what can be learned by following animals' tracks and observing other evidence of their passing. Scientific names are included, but the well-chosen quotes (from Winnie-the Pooh and the Book of Job as well as several Native Americans) - which underline Bowen's quiet reverence for the animals and what their ways may teach humans - are not always sourced. Still, a lovely book, intelligently conceived and beautifully executed. (Kirkus Reviews)

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