Monday, November 11, 2024

Where Do I Look: A Child's Search for the Grand Canyon (1983)

 I love the layout of Where Do I Look? by Jacque Franklin. This is a large, rectangular paperback with loads of white space on each page. On one page is a huge capital letter to begin a small amount of text. This letter is decorated with gold drawings of plants or features of wildlife. On the opposite page is a black and white photograph by George Huey of wildlife. The goal of this book is to highlight the grand canyon: "squirrels and the pinyon nuts, the deer and the prairie grass, the yucca with its roots in the soil..." 

This story is copyrighted by the Grand Canyoin Natural History Association

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