nice :) maybe next they'll make a kids' book about vegetable gardening,
& sow it with vegie seeds.
h : )
On 31/05/15 1:56 06AM, { brad brace } wrote:
> Bury This Book In The Ground And It Will Magically Come Back
> As A Tree
>
> This children's book not only teaches about ecology, it
> practices it.
>
> Despite the rise of e-books, most children's books are still
> made from trees. One new picture book is designed as a
> simple reminder of that fact: When kids finish reading a
> story about an adventure in the rainforest, they can plant
> the book in the ground. Eventually, the paper will sprout
> back into a mini-forest of jacaranda saplings.
>
> IFRAME:
> http://www.youtube.com/embed/xgy2a9tFSPU?rel=1&autoplay=0
>
> The book, Mi Pap Estuvo en la Selva (My Father Was In the
> Jungle), from a Buenos Aires publisher, had been around for
> a while in a standard format. But the publisher wanted to
> redesign it.
>
> "It has an endearing message regarding the respect we owe to
> all living beings," says Raquel Franco, editorial director
> of Pequeno Editor. "But we were wondering how to take this
> message even deeper. We wanted to develop a powerful
> communication action with a metaphorical weight."
>
> Each page is printed with nontoxic inks and sown with seeds
> from the jacaranda, a tree native to Argentina. "It's a tree
> that provides excellent shade and offers a lot of oxygen to
> the environment," says Franco. Before planting the book,
> kids water the cover to help the seeds germinate, and leave
> it in a sunny spot indoors. Once the seeds have sprouted,
> the book can go in a garden or in the dirt next to a road or
> sidewalk.
>
> It's probably not a design that would work for most books,
> since people tend to want to keep them. But the small run of
> the picture book, which the publisher made as a
> non-commercial project, is just meant to make a point. The
> editors also hope that the book will be read and re-read
> several times before it ends up in the ground.
>
> "We especially encourage re-reading it," says Franco. "We
> think this book must be planted after it has been read many
> times, in such a way that every time a kid looks at that
> growing tree he will perfectly remember the story that gave
> birth to it. It's also a metaphor--everything we read also
> takes root in us and is part of our mental library, our
> culture, of who we are as people."
>
>
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