Earth Day: An Alphabet Book

by Gary Kowalski, Rocco Baviera (Illustrator)

Overview

Give thanks for the earth and all its creatures from A to Z with Earth Day.

Children and adults will delight in Earth Day, a litany of gratitude that celebrates earth's diverse species, from apricots to groundhogs to junebugs, from quahogs to zinnias, zucchini and zebras with bright and whimsical illustrations. In alphabetical order, the wonders of nature arise from the page, reminding readers that every day is a reason to give thanks and that miracles are as simple as ABC. For ages 3 and up.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558969049
Publisher:	Unitarian Universalist Association
Publication date:	09/13/2022
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	3 - 18 Years

About the Author

Gary Kowalski is the author of eight books on nature, spirituality, history and the environment, including The Souls of Animals, Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers, and Goodbye Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School and has served Unitarian Universalist congregations across the United States and written for magazines like Tikkun and Yoga Journal.

Rocco Baviera's first children's book, A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull, was an American Library Association Notable Book, and his second children's book, Dream Weaver, was named one of the best books of the year by Child magazine.

Read an Excerpt

We give thanks for the earth and its creatures, and are grateful from A to Z:

For alligators, apricots, acorns, and apple trees,

For bumblebees, bananas, blueberries, and beagles,

Coconuts, crawdads, cornfields, and coffee,

Daisies, elephants, and flying fish,

For groundhogs, glaciers, and grasslands,

Hippos and hazelnuts, icicles and iguanas,

For juniper, jackrabbits, and junebugs,

Kudzu and kangaroos, lightning bugs and licorice,

For mountains and milkweed and mistletoe,

Norwhals and nasturtiums, otters and ocelots,

For peonies, persimmons, and polar bears,

Quahogs and Queen Anne's Lace,

For raspberries and roses,

Salmon and sassafras, tornadoes and tulipwood,

Urchins and valleys and waterfalls,

For X (the unknown, the mystery of it all!)

In every yak and yam;

We are grateful, good Earth, not least of all

For zinnias, zucchini, and zebras,

And for the alphabet of wonderful things that are as simple as ABC.

Editorial Reviews

"Kowalski's Earth Day makes devotion as delicious as sun-ripened berries, as awe-inspiring as a summer storm. Readers of all ages will be grateful for this exuberant appreciation of nature's myriad miracles." —Ruth Horowitz, author of Bat Time

"There are few people who walk this Earth with a fully open heart. Gary Kowlaski is, without doubt, one of them: exceptional author, philosopher and human being. What an outpouring of love he offers us in this luminous book; each page shines with his joy and gratitude for the sacredness of all beings. He, and his writing are a gift to us all and I will be giving Earth Day to everyone I know." —Rita M. Reynolds, author of Blessing the Bridge and Ask the Cow: A Gentle Guide to Finding Peace

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