Vera Ogden Bakker: 2 books

Grandma Buggs' rare pet Jasper Snake, Creeper, is sick.  His usually vibrant stripes of red and orange are a dull gray, and he won’t eat.  Grandma Buggs says that Creeper is homesick, and that the only cure is to return him to his home; the Jungle of Jasper Snakes in Africa.  It's a long trip,...

This is a book of poems about our relationship to our environment and other lives that share our earthly home-from the forest, to the sea, to the desert. These are poems of understanding who we are, why we are here, and where we are going.