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Awesome Earth: Concrete Poems Celebrate Caves, Canyons, and Other Fascinating Landforms written by Joan Bransfield Graham and illustrated by Tania Garcia
A sweet, colorful book of poetry for kids that celebrates the amazing landforms that surround us. The arches and canyon poems are my favorites! This is a great book for an adult to read aloud!
🏜Staff pick this week by Sophie🏜
Here’s the link to all her staff picks 👇
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This one is for the river-runners! A rare and fabulous Leslie Allen Jones scroll map of the Green River. This is the first scroll map of the Green River that we have seen. The map shows the river from Jensen to Green River, Utah. Come on by and check it out!
"Les Jones, of Heber City, Utah, was an engineer and avid river runner. Jones began running rivers at the age of eleven. He built a kayak, running most rivers solo, and taking movies from a camera mounted on a football helmet. By the early 1950`s Les began taping USGS maps together and filling in the missing contours. Les began using aerial photos, USGS maps and his own drawings and notes to trace and draw detailed maps on a scroll paper strips 7-10 inches wide. The maps were not waterproof and faded in sunlight, so they had to be protected from water and sunlight. Later his maps were copied onto waterproof mylar. Jones copied a river profile on the map above the river segments, labeling rapids and features on both. The maps contained rapid ratings, drawings of major rapids, Powell and other historic river camps, historic inscriptions and other detailed information. Les` maps were some of the first maps to contain conservation messages” (History of River Guides on the Colorado River System, Herm Hoops).
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March is International Women`s History Month.
Throughout the month we`ll focus on some of our favorite authors and recommend titles for you to enjoy.
First up: the remarkable Native American author (and three-term United States Poet Laureate) Joy Harjo www.joyharjo.com, one of our top sellers within poetry and our Memoir sections.
A member of the Muscogee Nation, Harjo received the Poetry Society of America`s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale`s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and most recently a National Humanities Medal.
If you`ve never read her work, check out her memoir Crazy Brave or her classic poetry collection How We Became Human.
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
https://shop.backofbeyondbooks.com/book/9780393345438
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
https://shop.backofbeyondbooks.com/book/9780393325348
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