Book Review: Superheroes of Nature: Incredible Skills to Survive and Thrive by Georges Feterman
Early Book Review: Fiona, Love at the Zoo by Richard Cowdrey
Book Review: Superpowers of Nature: Wild Wonders of the World by Georges Feterman
Early Book Review: Buzzkill: A Wild Wander Through the Weird and Threatened World of Bugs by Brenna Maloney
Early Book Review: Operation Pangolin: Saving the World's Only Scaled Mammal by Suzi Eszterhas
Operation Pangolin: Saving the World's Only Scaled Mammal by Suzi Eszterhas is currently scheduled for release on October 4 2022. Prized for their hard scales, pangolins are one of the most poached animals on the planet. They are also highly endangered. Yet scientists know very little about them. Pangolin rescuers and researchers such as Thai Nguyen have the difficult task of saving pangolins, changing local laws to prevent poaching, educating local communities, and learning more about these mysterious creatures. Join author and photographer Suzi Eszterhas in this exploration of the jungles of Vietnam where Thai works with the Save Vietnam's Wildlife organization to save endangered pangolins.
Early Book Review: The Cat Behavior Answer Book, 2nd Edition Understanding How Cats Think, Why They Do What They Do, and How to Strengthen Our Relationships with Them by Arden Moore
Early Book Review: Rock? Plant? Animal?: How Nature Keeps Us Guessing by Etta Kaner, Brittany Lane
Rock? Plant? Animal?: How Nature Keeps Us Guessing is a children's nonfiction book written by Etta Kaner and illustrated by Brittany Lane. It is currently scheduled for release on September 13 2022. This book is an interactive guessing game featuring nature’s most unusual adaptations and characteristics. Can you tell the difference between a rock, a plant, and an animal? While it might sound simple, the vast diversity of life on earth can throw us some serious curveballs! Sometimes, what looks like a plant is actually an animal. Other times, what looks like an animal is actually a plant! Even things that look like living creatures can turn out to be unique rocks. Each spread features a realistic illustration of either a puzzling critter, a perplexing plant, or a special stone. Every picture is accompanied by a simple prompt: rock, plant, or animal? The answer is revealed by turning the page to discover a beautifully detailed scene and a brief description of the “species.” Even for the most esteemed naturalists, the answers are hard to believe! Rock? Plant? Animal? lets its readers be detectives, encouraging curiosity and embracing surprise.
Early Book Review: Secrets of the Lost City: A Scientific Adventure in the Honduran Rain Forest by Sandra Markle
Early Book Review: Five Hiding Ostriches by Barbara Barbieri McGrath
Early Book Review: Elephants on the Move: A Day with an Asian Elephant Family by Lela Nargi
Early Book Review: This is a Birthday Cake by Andrew Cangelose, Josh Shipley
Early Book Review: The World's Most Ridiculous Animals by Philip Bunting
Early Book Review: Party Animals (Cranky Chicken) by Katherine Battersby
Early Book Review: We Adopted a Baby Chick by Lori Joy Smith
Book Review: Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic by Andy Secher
Book Review: Scaredy Squirrel Gets a Surprise by Melanie Watt
Book Review: Wings Over Water: The Vital Magic of North America’s Prairie Wetlands by Wetlands LLC
Early Book Review: Chimpanzee Memoirs: Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives by Edited by Stephen Ross and Lydia Hopper
I thought that Chimpanzee Memoirs is a well organized collection of essays that are accessible and interesting to read. I liked that the experts were from a wide range of backgrounds, fields, and reasons being motivated to work with chimpanzees. The essays are each short, making this a quick read, but full of personal stories and tales of specific champs that stuck a chord with the experts. I liked that while some of the experts included are well known and fully expected to be included, readers also get to learn about people in the field that we most likely have never heard of. I think this book is an engaging and encouraging read, that also covers the struggles of the researchers and the threats to chimpanzees (past and present), so does not sugar coat the subject matter. This would be a great book for school and public libraries to have in their collection. It could be great inspiration for readers that have interest in studying chimps, or other animals.