wind socks
bag in the wind
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 . br 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 .