  | Our Home, Our Only Home Author: Bauer, Marion Dane | |
| Price: $23.28 | ||
Summary:
In a sweeping poetic achievement--and a clarion call to action--Newbery Honoree Marion Dane Bauer reckons with humankind's responsibility for the climate crisis, tracing a storyline from ice age to industrial age.
Full Text Reviews:
Other - 12/08/2025 Insistent verse by Bauer urges care for Earth as confident artwork from Diao emphasizes the planet’s fragility in this bracing picture book wake-up call. Similes keenly draw out humankind’s oneness with the natural world ("We are as alive,/ as night-sprouting mushrooms,/ as worms gobbling their way/ through the living soil") even as text simultaneously narrates a story of how humans, with their "big brains" and their "trusted companion./ Fire," have carelessly?wrought destruction. The lines crescendo into an accounting of alarming consequences ("Wildfires kill./ Grasslands become desert./ Oceans die./ Plastics fill land and sea") before suggesting ways that people can still change course. There’s a sandy tactile quality to soft-contoured digital renderings that aptly match the poem’s cumulative tone, which darkens before eventually brightening. Includes extensive back matter. Ages 4-8. (Mar.) - Copyright 2025
