At the back of the book is a list of the animals that appear in the story and an invitation to find them all. This lively story about non-point source pollution is filled with both information and action. Realistic, lush illustrations by Olga Pastuchiv illuminate the children's passion for their river and the ecosystem it supports.

About the Author
Michael J. Caduto is an author, ecologist, storyteller, and musician who presents programs and performances to children of all ages around the world. In addition to being the only environmentalist who has ever used CPR to save a chipmunk's life, he is well known as the creator and co-author of the international best-selling Keepers of the Earth series, Native American Gardening, and Pond and Brook: A Guide to Nature in Freshwater Environments. Olga Pastuchiv is a children's book author, painter, and commercial illustrator. Whether working on a fishing boat in Greece or as a landscape gardener in New England, Olga is always painting. She paints things large and small, from murals and parade floats to illustrations for several poetry and botany collections and a cookbook. Her picture book Minas and the Fish (Houghton Mifflin, 1989) is about a fisherman's boy she met on Karpathos Island. Olga lives in Maine with two cats.

Reviews
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Children organize to clean up an algae-slimed swimming hole...The well-meaning text concentrates more on delivering message and information than telling a story, but Pastuchiv offers readers plenty to discover for themselves in her impressionistic paintings. Each river scene is generously populated with dozens of identifiable birds, insects and other wildlife-all listed at the end, though without a visual key.

" -- Kirkus Reviews
"...an environmental story that's part cautionary tale, part call to action...Pastuchiv's (Minas and the Fish) earth-toned paintings are dappled with light; her human characters have a rough, sketchlike quality, particularly compared to the more precise portrayals of wildlife and lush vegetation." -- Publishers Weekly
"This story will resonate with everyone who splashed in a stream as a child." -- Paul T. Zeph, Former President, North American Association for Environmental Education
"If a river could talk, it would sound like Riparia." -- Paper Tigers
"A wonderful, empowering story for children who will inherit the rivers." -- The Midwest Book Review


Awards
Winner of Skipping Stones Honor Award 2012.



Book Information
ISBN 9780884489993
Author Michael J. Caduto
Format Paperback
Page Count 32
Imprint Tilbury House,U.S.
Publisher Tilbury House,U.S.
Weight(grams) 150g
Dimensions(mm) 257mm * 231mm * 5mm