Description
My father says there was a forest here for over a hundred million years,” Jeannie Baker’s young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a consult with to this tropical rain forest in North Queensland, Australia.
We walk with him some of the ancient trees as he pretends this is a time way back, when extinct and rare animals lived within the forest and aboriginal children played there. But for the way for much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders?
Jeannie Baker’s lifelike collage illustrations take the reader on an atypical visual journey to an exotic, primeval wilderness, which like such a lot of others is now being threatened by civilization.