WTS oa vel re) toca PVT onsen yh? \ by Jeannie Baker“NI fe asua .y father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years,” Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest in North Queensland, Australia. We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when extinct and rare animals lived in the forest, and aboriginal children played there. But for how much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders? Jeannie Baker's lifelike collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual joumey to an exotic, primeval wilder- ness, which like so many others is now being threatened by civilization, Greenwillow Books 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007WHERE THE FOREST MEETS THE SEA story and pictures by Jeannie Baker Greenwillow Books, New York‘Seng © 1967 by Jeane Baker felled m tran 1987 by Sule Pe Bey Mii ated 1 idee rapture or merc 7 scP 2019 1817 unary of Cones Cotjnam Psion Da Be Jean, Whae te forest mets he Saar On 9 carpet nan Asal aie ort tut ator, a young oy tins bout Be hey of {he pant ad sl eae yan wonder bho Ihe fare [Ram fresePeten 2 tala Pen! ri P27.81242y 1987 FE 89-7551 ISBN 0-688-00069.2 ISBN 0-688 069640". bla)To David, with all my loveIa clint cal salen pclae Pe we can only reach by boat. 5od and you have to know the way through the reef. Not many people go there,When we arrive, cockatoos tise from the forest in a squawking cloud. My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years.My father says there used to be crocodiles here, and kangaroos that lived in trees. Maybe there still are.Tollow:a creek into the rain-forest. “=I pretend it is a hundred million years ago.I sit very still. ..and watch. ..and listen. I wonder how long it takes the trees to grow to the top of the forest!It is hollow. Perhaps aboriginal children played here, g £ ic Ss 5 S ©I climb inside the tree. Its dark, a RCS Roe CR ut canis ous This is a good place to hide.My father has made a fire and is cooking the fish he caught.But will the f till be here when we come bacDaintree Rainforest aa he place, the people, and the predicament are real. This forest. part of the wildemess between the Daintree River and Bloomfield in North Queensland, Australia. There remain at the making ofthis book only 296,000 acres of wet tropical rain forest wildemess that meet the ocean waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Small asitis, this s the largest pristine area of rain forest leftin Austraka The artist made two extensive field trips to the Daintree Wildemess to research and collect materials. These relief collages are constructed from a multitude of ‘materials, including modeling clay, papers, textured materials, preserved natural materials, and paints. The collages are mostly the same size as the reproductions.