Wild Bog Tea
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2001
- Category
- General, Cooking & Food, Multigenerational
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888994066
- Publish Date
- Jun 2001
- List Price
- $18.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 5 to 8
- Grade: k to 3
- Reading age: 5 to 8
Description
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award Honor Book
A bog is a wetland in which a mass of moss has grown, often many feet deep, so that it is spongy. Many animals and plants make the bog their home. But this unique environment is fragile; all over the world, bogs are disappearing as a result of development, the death of wetlands, and a general disinterest in the environment.
In this story a bog is beautifully described in its early years. The narrator and his grandfather visit the newly formed bog and see sandhill cranes and wild plum; then they go home and make wild bog tea. As the narrator grows into a man, he continues to visit the bog with his grandfather and watches it mature. Finally, after his grandfather's death, the narrator revisits the bog and remembers the years of his boyhood.
About the authors
ANNETTE LEBOX is a poet and an environmental activist who divides her time between Maple Ridge, British Columbia, and a remote cabin in the Cariboo grasslands. She has won the BC Book Prize for illustrated children’s literature twice: for Salmon Creek, illustrated by Karen Reczuch, and for Peace Is an Offering, illustrated by Stephanie Graegin, which was also selected for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. She is also the author of the YA novel Circle of Cranes.
Harvey Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong as a teenager. He has won the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award three times - with Paul Yee for Roses Sing on New Snow and Ghost Train, and with Celia Barker Lottridge for Music for the Tsar of the Sea by Celia Barker Lottridge. Harvey is currently living in Hong Kong.
Awards
- Commended, CLA Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award (Honor Book)
- Long-listed, OLA Red Maple Award
