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Bag in the Wind
Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 230 Ratings and 78 Reviews

Book Description
In a singular first children's book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople's lives.

One cold morning in early spring, a bulldozer pushes a pile of garbage around a landfill and uncovers an empty plastic bag - a perfectly good bag, the color of the skin of a yellow onion, with two holes for h... More
Book Information
PublisherCandlewick Press
BindingHardcover (4 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages48
ISBN-100763630012
ISBN-13978-0763630010
Publication Date02/23/2010
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About Ted Kooser (Author) : Ted Kooser is a published author of children's books. Published credits of Ted Kooser include The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, How to Eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of T... more
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About Barry Root (Illustrator) : Barry Root is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Barry Root include Bag in the Wind, Christmas Farm, The Birthday Tree, and The Cat Who Liked P... more
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