title: Ring of Earth: A Child's Book of Seasons : This Ring of Earth, This World, This Sphere, Enclosed Within the Circled Year
author:  Jane Yolen 
description: Award-winning author Yolen offers a beautiful book of poetry that sings old songs in new ways. The challenging language, rich in metaphor and rhythm, is matched perfectly by Wallner's stunning drawings, showing the dragonfly with its "veins like stained glass ribbings trapping all the sun's light," and the geese flying "but wingtips apart, no compass, no compass but the heart." The seasons are represented by four poems, each narrated by a different animal, and both text and art emphasize the cyclic nature of all living things on "This ring of earth, this world, this sphere, enclosed within the circled year." It is difficult to say which is more satisfyingWallner's complicated designs, in which the earth and its animals are wreathed together, or Yolen's wonderful text that reminds us "the Power of the World always works in circles."<BR>Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Larry Niven
  
  
  
  
  
  This is for the firemen of California and neighboring states who fought the
  fires of October 2003, with particular thanks to those who saved our house and
  others in Indian Falls, Chatsworth, Los Angeles County.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Ringworld is about the same mass as Jupiter. Its shape is that of a ribbon
  a million miles across and six hundred million miles long, which makes it a
  bit larger than the Earth's orbit, and a few miles thick. It circles a yellow
  dwarf star. Its spin, at 770 miles/second, is enough to give it about Earth's
  gravity of centrifugal force. Walls along both rims, standing a thousand miles
  high, are enough to hold an atmosphere for millions of years.
  
  
  
  
  
  Much else derives from these basic assumptions.
  
  
  
  
  
  The inner surface is a habitat three million times the area of planet Earth.
  The topography is literally a work of art, carved in by wh