Maps Book

Rating: 3.5

This harkens back to the days of the hippies, flower children, and rainbow family when there was an underlying current that we should all be living closer to the land and that we all have responsibility for the condition of the Earth. I like the message, so I appreciate BB's books. This isn't a story that all kids will love. It's a book to take off the shelf only when the time "feels right."

Papagos try
not to anger
their animal brothers
...
They know
the land belongs
to spider and ant
the same as it does
to people.

They never say,
"This is my land
to do with as I please."
They say,
"We share . . .
we only share."

And they do share.