The View from the Oak

The Private Worlds of Other Creatures

Herbert Kohl and Judith Kohl

paperback

$14.95

Back in print, the classic children's science book, winner of the National Book Award for children's literature.
A rare example of how science and philosophy can be fused in a book stretching the minds of readers of all ages.  This is a book that matters.
-- The National Book Award Citation
Winner of the National Book Award for children's literature, The View from the Oak is a groundbreaking work of ethology—the study of the way animals perceive the environment—from two of America's most respected educators.  With this new, illustrated paperback edition, The New Press brings back into print this classic exploration of the strange but marvelous ways in which living creatures experience space, sense time, and communicate with each other.

What do flowers in a meadow look like to a bee?  How does the world appear to a snake who "sees" by detecting minute temperature changes?  What is it like to live in the water strider's two-dimensional universe?  Including hands-on games and activities, The View from the Oak helps readers enter into the fascinating, often invisible world of nature.  It is a "superb book for families to share" (Winston-Salem Journal).

Judith Kohl is the coauthor of Pack Band and Colony and of The Long Haul.  Herbert Kohl has written more than forty books, including the classic 36 Children.  He was founder and first director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and is currently director of the Center of Teaching Excellence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco.  The Kohls live in Point Arena, California.
Fall 2000
paperback
7 1/2 x 9 1/4, 112 pages
978-1-56584-636-4

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