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Review of Anna & Samia: The True Story of Saving a Black Rhino
Anna & Samia: The True Story of Saving a Black Rhino by Paul Meisel; illus. by the author Primary Farrar 32 pp. 10/19 978-0-374-30577-2 $17.99 When a newborn black rhinoceros is abandoned in a Kenyan rhino sanctuary in 1985, conservationist Anna Merz steps in to rescue and raise the baby...
Review of All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World by Lori Alexander; illus. by Vivien Mildenberger Intermediate Houghton 94 pp. 8/19 978-1-328-88420-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-03619-7 $9.99 In the prosperous city of Delft, in seventeenth-century Netherlands, Antony van Leeuwenhoek was a cloth merchant. But even without formal...
Review of Being Frog
Being Frog by April Pulley Sayre; photos by the author Preschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 32 pp. 2/20 978-1-5344-2881-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2882-9 $10.99 A green frog moves through its woodland environment, its motions described in short rhyming sentences that match the pace of the creature as it hunts, crawls, jumps,...
Review of The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds
The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa’s Last Great Herds by Sy Montgomery; photos by Roger Wood and Logan Wood Intermediate, Middle School Houghton 162 pp. 6/19 978-0-544-76113-1 $24.99 Montgomery takes readers on safari, joining a group led by eminent scientist Dr. Richard Despard Estes to follow wildebeest migrations through...
Review of Predator and Prey: A Conversation in Verse
Predator and Prey: A Conversation in Verse by Susannah Buhrman-Deever; illus. by Bert Kitchen Primary, Intermediate Candlewick Studio 32 pp. g 4/19 978-0-7636-9533-0 $18.99 Buhrman-Deever imagines the relationships between predators and prey as poetic standoffs. Animal antagonists express their behaviors and needs in a variety of creative poetic formats, sometimes...
Review of The Lost Forest
The Lost Forest by Phyllis Root; illus. by Betsy Bowen Primary University of Minnesota 40 pp. 4/19 978-0-8166-9796-0 $17.95 In 1882, a survey team mapping out the wilderness areas of Minnesota made a mistake. As the land was being divided into townships, one of the surveying crew came to Township...
Review of Moth: An Evolution Story
Moth: An Evolution Storyby Isabel Thomas; illus. by Daniel EgnéusPrimary Bloomsbury 48 pp. g6/19 978-1-5476-0020-5 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-5476-0024-3 $13.29“This is a story of light and dark. Of change and adaptation, of survival and hope.” In a shadowy (pre-industrial) wood, a peppered moth — its “speckled, freckled” wing patterns wonderfully detailed...
Review of Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir
Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muirby Julie Bertagna; illus. by William GoldsmithIntermediate, Middle School Yosemite Conservancy 128 pp.3/19 978-1-930238-94-7 $17.99This creatively rendered biography-in-comics-format of John Muir (1838–1914) is filled with the naturalist’s adventures, from his childhood in Scotland to his pioneering conservation work and formation of America’s National Parks....
Review of Titanosaur: Discovering the World’s Largest Dinosaur
Titanosaur: Discovering the World’s Largest Dinosaurby José Luis Carballido and Diego Pol; illus. by Florencia GigenaPrimary, Intermediate Orchard/Scholastic 40 pp. g3/19 978-1-338-20739-2 $18.99The paleontologists who discovered the fossilized bones of a group of seven of the largest-known (“for now”) dinosaurs take readers step-by-step through the careful and time-consuming process of...