Arden, Carolyn: Goose Moon.Arden Ar·den An unincorporated city of north-central California, a residential suburb of Sacramento. Population: 101,400. Arden, Elizabeth 1884?-1966. , Carolyn GOOSE MOON. Il. by Jim Postier. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1-59078-040-X. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2004.32 pp. $15.95. A girl excitedly and vividly explains everything she loves about winter, including hot cocoa, tobogganing tobogganing, sport of coasting down snowy hillsides or chutes on a toboggan, a flat-bottomed vehicle made of hard wood. The toboggan, typically measuring 1.5 ft by 6–8 ft (.46 m by 1.8–2. , frost, and snow. Eventually, however, she tires of winter and begins to yearn for summer. Her grandfather explains how nature offers clues about the changing season. This is a tale of a child's imagination and her relationship with nature. Signs of long-awaited summer's arrival finally occur early one morning when the grandfather and granddaughter see the geese geese domestic geese which were derived from the wild goose Anser anser. There are many other species in this genus and in the other genus of geese, the Branta spp. of which Branta canadensis is typical. flying under a bright moon. Ages 4-8. Reviewed by Sonia Mele, Ontario, Canada |
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