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Entries Tagged as 'Sandra Markle'

Snow School

February 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN With just 3,500 left in the wilderness of their Pakistani home in the Hindu Kush Mountains, snow leopards are a rare and mesmerizing endangered species for any age group to read about and study. Beautifully white with spotted fur and (sometimes) piercing blue eyes, snow leopards remind us of the […]

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The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs

August 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN What do you do when you notice all hell’s broken loose? That’s the question frog researcher Edgardo Griffith faced when he observed the dramatically declining populations of Panama’s national amphibian symbol, the golden frog.  And it’s what award-winning author Sandra Markle sets off to document in this adventuresome book that […]

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Animals Charles Darwin Saw: An Around-the-World Adventure

July 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN With special attention paid to the animals encountered during the travels of Robert Scott, Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, and Charles Darwin, author Sandra Markle not only created an award-winning book series, but made important headway in providing kid-friendly lit within the burgeoning field of Human-Animal Studies (HAS). In light of […]

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Family Pack

February 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY One of the challenges that children’s authors and animal rights activists alike face is to portray animals as they are — not as humans in costume, but as feeling, sentient, and diverse creatures. In the new book Family Pack, Sandra Markle hits just the right note, describing the reintroduction of wolves […]

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