If We Were Gone: Imagining the World Without People

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Product Details
Price
$19.99  $18.59
Publisher
Millbrook Press (Tm)
Publish Date
Pages
32
Dimensions
9.3 X 11.1 X 0.4 inches | 0.92 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781541523579

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About the Author
John Coy is the author of young adult novels, the 4 for 4 middle-grade series, and nonfiction and fiction picture books including Hoop Genius, Game Changer, Their Great Gift, Dads, If We Were Gone, and Where We Come From. He has received numerous awards for his work including a Marion Vannett Ridgway Award, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor, a Bank Street College Best Book of the Year, and the Burr/Warzalla Award for Distinguished Achievement in Children's Literature. John lives by the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
Natalie Capannelli is an artist, illustrator, and freelance baker. She has an MFA from Pratt Institute and loves tending to plants and traveling the world. When not traveling, Natalie lives in Brooklyn, New York. If We Were Gone is her debut picture book. www.natcap.space
Reviews

"It's remarkably easy to imagine the earth without people, but not vice versa. John Coy makes a simple, compelling case for protecting our home planet."--Denis Hayes, national coordinator of the first Earth Day and environmental advocate

-- (6/26/2019 12:00:00 AM)

"In this disturbingly beautiful dystopian meditation, Coy uses direct and dreamy language, encouraging readers to imagine a world without humans."--Publishers Weekly

-- (3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM)

"The text and Capannelli's double-page watercolor spreads work together to paint a vivid picture of the harm unleashed on the world by humans . . ."--School Library Journal

-- (3/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)