West Coast Wild: A Nature Alphabet

49 Pages·2015·12.982 MB·English

by  Deborah Hodge, Karen Reczuch

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ISBN: 978-1-55498-440-4
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DEBORAH HODGE KAREN RECZUCH
PICTURES BY
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W E S T
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Text copyright © 2015 by Deborah Hodge
Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Karen Reczuch
Published in Canada and the USA in 2015 by Groundwood Books
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored
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For Xavier, Molly, Finn and
We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the
Jack, with love. I look forward to
Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada
sharing many more west coast
Book Fund (CBF) and the Ontario Arts Council.
adventures with you! — DH
an Ontario government agency
un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario To Rylan, who has waited long
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
enough. — KR
Hodge, Deborah, author
West Coast wild : a nature alphabet / written by Deborah Hodge ; illustrated
by Karen Reczuch.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55498-440-4 (bound).—ISBN 978-1-55498-441-1 (pdf)
1. English language—Alphabet—Juvenile literature. 2. Pacific
Rim National Park Reserve Region (B.C.)—Pictorial works—Juvenile
literature. 3. Alphabet books. I. Reczuch, Karen, illustrator II. Title.
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The illustrations were done in watercolor and color pencil.
Design by Michael Solomon
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W E S T
C O A S T
W I L D
A Nature Alphabet
DEBORAH HODGE
PICTURES BY
KAREN RECZUCH
GROUNDWOOD BOOKS
HOUSE OF ANANSI PRESS
TORONTO BERKELEY
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There is a wild and beautiful place where an
ancient rainforest meets the ocean, where
whales swim and eagles soar. Waves splash
up on a windswept beach, and sea and sky go
on forever.
Would you like to visit this special place?
Come and explore the Pacific west coast!
Discover some treasures of land and sea by
turning the pages of this ABC.
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is for an ancient forest that towers over
a long sandy beach. Heavy rain falls in this
rainforest and turns the trees into giants.
Some are eight hundred years old.
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