Jun 30, 2010
Ted Kooser is best known as one of the Midwest's -- indeed, one of the nation's -- best poets. The Nebraskan is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and also has won the Pulitzer Prize for verse.
Bag in the Wind, though, is a prose-and-pictures book for grade-schoolers. Kooser's charming tale focuses on an ordinary plastic grocery bag. First it is thrown away and ends up in a landfill, but a few gusts of wind blow it back out into the world. Thus begins a journey involving several people, all of whom use the bag for various purposes -- carrying crushed aluminum cans, for example.
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