“If you come to the Big Bog, you might think you have come to the loneliest, quietest place on earth.” But the bog is not as quiet one might imagine. There are surprises bubbling just under its surface. Pitcher plant mosquitoes, “butterflies that flit from bog flower to bog flower.” Tamaracks and black spruce, “the… Read more »
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Phyllis’s Story
If you weren’t a writer, what would you like to be? If I weren’t a writer, I might be a farmer, or a naturalist, or a singer (if I could carry a tune). Maybe an explorer, or a dancer (if I didn’t trip over my own feet). So many possibilities! What I love about being… Read more »
Your Friend, Phyllis
Dear Reader, I’m so glad to have this chance to write to you, reader to reader. Reading has always been one of my favorite things to do. My dad told me once that when I was still in a high chair I was reading, but I think he may have been exaggerating. He liked to… Read more »
BIG BELCHING BOG, by Phyllis Root
Young readers will further enjoy Phyllis Root’s marvelous Big Belching Bog by participating in some of the subject and resource modules offered in the following link created by the Irish Peatland Conservation Council. Click HERE and enjoy the following suggested subject modules – The Art Module in which bog art field studies and multisensory field investigations are described, the… Read more »
