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This is a great read, even if you don’t plan on making ice cream.

59 pages total

This is a collection of ten stories about wetlands from a variety of indigenous cultures, compiled and edited by Jana Dean with paper cut illustrations by Nikki McClure (author of several children’s picture books). These are meant for classroom storytelling as part of a wetlands ecology curriculum unit. Storytelling tips are given in the introduction section, and additional resources are listed in the back.

Checked this out from the library while waiting for Anxietyland by the same author. So far some jokes are quite funny/relatable and others are a total miss for me.

I love the author’s potty mouth. How he can both express love for our urban areas and call them “shitholes” at the same time…the abandoned concrete dumps where only invasive weeds seem to survive.

Gritty. Sort of a working class version of a Doug Tallamy book…still same core message of native plants good, invasive plants bad, but with more attitude.

The author loves plants but is not fond of humans as a group. “As a species, we’re behaving like a twenty-two-year-old cocaine addict that just found a duffel bag of cash on the sidewalk in Vegas, about to burn through everything in a night, trash the hotel room, and nearly kill themselves without a thought toward the future.”

Weird