Uno's Garden

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Uno's Garden
Author Graeme Base
Cover artistGraeme Base
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Genre picture book, children's book
Publisher Penguin Books
Publication date
2006
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-670-04191-6
OCLC 224572751

Uno's Garden is a picture book written and illustrated by Australian children's author Graeme Base. The story features themes of environmental degradation, conservation of nature and habitat, and extinction. It also features arithmetic, and at the back of the book there are instructions for several number games relating to the book. It also contains a game in the book where you have to find an amount of plants, animals, buildings and sometimes one snortelpig. All of the animals and plants featured in the book were invented by the author. Some of the animals included are the snortlepig, moopaloop, lumpybum, and frinklepod.

Contents

The human voice of the story is that of the aptly named Uno, the first human to move into the forest. The story continues as other people follow Uno in moving into the forest and, as the number of people and buildings increases, the number of plants and animals decreases until there are none left, which leads to future generations rebuilding the city with more environmental consciousness. The book has been chosen as the theme of the 2007 Myer Christmas Windows in Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia.

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