Whisper from the Woods

by Victoria Wirth

Ssh . . . Listen to the woods. In this elegant edition, Victoria Wirth and Scott Banfill reveal for us the secret lives of woodland trees. Wirth's sparse, honest text narrates the eternal cycle of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671747908
• ISBN13: 9780671747909
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.7" x 12.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A gift for those grieving the loss of a parent

As a psychologist I often am witnessing the pain of death for those left behind. Many baby-boomers will identify with the challenge of providing support to their parents, and the difficult task of laying them to rest. This book provides a very meaningful gift for those grieving such a loss, and puts death into a meaningful perspective...part of the journey of life. I bought 10 copies!

Unbelievably interesting and detailed pictures

I read this book to my older son hundreds of times, and I think every time I found something new in the pictures! They are fabulous. The woods shown here are full of creatures, all with such incredible details. It must have been something like my 50th reading I noticed that there were little forest people in some of the pictures! The story never scared my son, although it does deal with the life cycle including death, but it is done in a natural and beautiful way. I must admit my husband was a bit bothered by that theme in a picture book, and others might be too, but I really wasn't, as it was presented as part of life. A very unusual and special book.

Exceptional! Inspiring! Exquisitely Symbolic!

For those who enjoy and are ever searching for an addition to their metaphoric library - this is a treasure indeed. It is a gem of written and visually portrayed word. Inspirational for the youngest to the oldest of all generations. It promotes the beauty and wealthy of "storytelling" and the intrinsic worth of a soul and a community.

Cycle of trees and life.

Beautiful picture book that tells of one generation's love and protection of the next the generation. How we become the infant, the adult, and aged generation in a life's dance.