Pioneer Press: New picture books teach kids to love Earth and animals

By Mary Ann Grossmann

Pioneer Press

July 17, 2016

One North Star (Phyllis Root, Beckie Prange, Betsy Bowen) Three talented women collaborated on this beautiful book, one of the most elegant and appealing of the year.

Minnesota Book Award-winner Root of Minneapolis brings the North Country’s marshes, woods, lakes and bogs alive with her text, which teaches numbers one through 10 using repetition, ending each with “under one north star.”

Keep reading.

Related content

One North Star Who lives here under one north star?

University of Minnesota Press Podcast

The crime of black repair in Jamaica.

"The way you show up is everything": History-making expeditions and the women behind them.

Time and the interplay between human history and planetary history.

SPRING 2021 CATALOG

More information:

Upcoming Events

HUDSON BAY BOUND virtual event with the St. Croix Youth Summit and Natalie Warren Apr 22, 2021 09:15 AM
(US/Central) — Virtual (more info below)
DISCOMFORT FOOD virtual event with the University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities, the Lawrence Public Library, and Marni Kessler Apr 28, 2021 07:30 PM
(US/Central) — Virtual (more info below)
YANG WARRIORS virtual event at Wordplay with Kao Kalia Yang May 03, 2021 09:00 AM
(US/Central) — Virtual (more info below)
NOOPIMING virtual event at Wordplay with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson May 03, 2021 07:00 PM
(US/Central) — Virtual (more info below)
FOR THE LOVE OF COD virtual launch with Moon Palace Books and Eric Dregni May 06, 2021 07:00 PM
(US/Central) — Virtual (more info below)