Bag in the WindBy: Ted Kooser Illustrator: Barry Root In a singular first childrens book, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Ted Kooser follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeoples lives. One cold morning in early spring, a bulldozer pushes a pile of garbage around a landfill and uncovers an empty plastic bag a perfectly good bag, the color of the skin of a yellow onion, with two holes for handles that someone has thrown