Advice Between Kingdoms: How the Hays Moved Trash Mountain

By Delila Jahn-Thue and Sarah Alexander

Princess must choose between a lifestyle of luxury (boring!) and cleaning up a mountainous mess. The only question is: will her parents let her have her way? This ecological fairy tale involves an unplanned pony ride up steep and stinky Trash Mountain, and the simple steps back to an entirely different future.

Set on a vast and beautiful prairie, the story follows royal farming folk (the Hays) on their journey as they take neighborly advice and transition from living off the land to living a life of consumerism. Seeking to live like the rest, King and Queen Hay learn some difficult lessons. Lucky for them, their princess has eyes and ears, a nose, and a will of her own. Retracing their steps together, with the help of a wise old pony, they find their way home to a life with a future, one they can enjoy together.

Suitable for children of all ages, this story is about rural North Americans, and it leaves us questioning what we are doing to our own kingdoms and what legacy we will leave our children.

Following this fairy tale is a list of resources to current research on the effects of burning garbage and the alternativesan indispensible tool in the practical teaching of environmental truths.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781452554242

Delila Jahn-Thue

Delila Jahn-Thue is an educator and a student of the environment. She resides on a farm in the rural area of Lake Alma, Saskatchewan, where she is the mother of three, a wife, a gardener, and a writer of a weekly newspaper column called "Living from the Farm."

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