Author: Peet, Bill
Title: FAREWELL TO SHADY GLADE
Description: London, Andre 1st edition 1967 colot illustrations to every page including 16 full page illustrations by Bill Peet . sm.4to in edge torn dust jacket but only 1.2cm with V shaped loss the 4 other tears without loss. The pictorial boards repeat the jacket's illustration {jacket sl.creased/boards clean and fresh] 38pp The story of animals whose habitat is invaded by bulldosers planning to build something. The animals who have been living there in peace realize they must leave -as the racoon says there is a great big world out there. They climb a tree that over hangs the railway tracks and jump onto the train's roof. The animals rattle through miles of ugly country when they get to the open country they find they cannot jump off the train. There is a happy ending however and the book is dedicated to Rachel Carson for her ecological stance "with the hope that the new generation will carry on her all-important work toward preserving what is left of our natural world"

Keywords: ecology animals' habitat dedicated to Rachel Carson


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