num_pages: 48
description: In a singular first childrens book Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeoples lives.One cold morning in early spring a bulldozer pushes a pile of garbage around a landfill and uncovers an empty plastic bag  a perfectly good bag the color of the skin of a yellow onion with two holes for handles  that someone has thrown away. Just then a puff of wind lifts the rolling flapping bag over a chain-link fence and into the lives of several townsfolk  a can-collecting girl a homeless man a store owner  not that all of them notice. Renowned poet Ted Kooser fashions an understated yet compassionate world full of happenstance and connection neglect and care all perfectly expressed in Barry Roots tender illustrations. True to the books earth-friendly spirit it is printed on paper containing 100 percent recycled post-consumer waste and includes an authors note on recycling plastic bags.
language: English
title: Bag in the Wind
publisher: Candlewick