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    The Night the Forest Came to Town
    The Night the Forest Came to Town
    The Night the Forest Came to Town
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    The Night the Forest Came to Town

    By Charles Ghigna and Annie Wilkinson

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    From dusk to dawn a forest creeps into a town where the grown-ups are too distracted to notice. But the children do. They see greenery take root in the lifeless cracks of dull sidewalks. They see an eagle build her nest atop a forgotten fountain and saplings start to sprout in dark corners. A gray-drab city defined by concrete and steel, vibrations and notifications, transforms into a living garden where apartment buildings overflow with window boxes full of flowers, birds sing songs through day and night and children laugh and tend to their gardens. Watch as nature reclaims this town.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9781459816510
    The Night the Forest Came to Town
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    Charles Ghigna

    Charles Ghigna (also known as Father Goose) lives in a treehouse in Alabama. He is the author of more than 100 award-winning books for children and adults from Random House, Capstone, Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams, Charlesbridge and other publishers. His poems appear in hundreds of magazines from The New Yorker and Harper's to Cricket and Highlights. He is a former poetry editor of the English Journal and nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media Services.

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