Wild Everywhere

Written by Katya Balen · Illustrated by Gill Smith

After moving to a gray city, a girl searches for the wildness she left behind.

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32 pages· ~520L· AR ~3

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Bookroo's summary

In the woods, a girl finds wildness everywhere: birds answer when she shouts her name, and the stars and earth are full of secrets. When her family moves to a city of tall glass buildings, she feels she has lost her wild, until a bird calls to her and leads her to discover nature hiding among the city streets.

From the publisher

In a poetic, beautifully illustrated story, a child's move to a big city has her mourning her connection with nature until she makes a serendipitous discovery. When I shout my name into the sky, nobody answers. The city is lonely and so am I.I've lost my wild. In the woods, the girl finds wildness all around her--when she climbs toward the sky and shouts her name into the air, a bird sings back to her. She finds secrets in the stars and stories in the earth. But when her family leaves wildness behind, she sees only towering gray-glass buildings, taller than trees, nothing she can climb. It's not possible to find the stars, and the moon hangs all alone. She feels bereft--until a bird calls to her from the sky, and following its path through the city streets to the river leads to natural sights that take her breath away. With gorgeous prose from Katya Balen and atmospheric artwork from Gill Smith, this tale of the wondrous ability of nature to prevail shows that wildness never leaves those who cherish it.

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