Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Buffalo Music, a fictionalized account the life of Mary Ann Goodnight, chronicles the deeply disturbing annihilation of the American buffalo from the perspective of the woman credited with helping save the species from extinction. When Molly settles into a new life in the Texas panhandle, she quickly becomes accustomed to the noises of […]
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Buffalo Music
July 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags: Animal Exploitation·Buffalo·Early Elementary·History·Jennifer Gannett·Mary Ann Goodnight·Wildlife Rehabilitation·Yellowstone
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 […]
Tags: Alan Marks·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Preschoolers·Sandra Markle·Wild Animals·Wildlife·Wolves·Yellowstone
The Wolves Are Back
March 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Author Jean Craighead George and artist Wendell Minor have teamed up to bring us the beautifully illustrated tale in The Wolves Are Back. Using the story of a male wolf and his pup to trace the re-introduction of wolves in Yellowstone, they also have provided a chance to explore the backstory […]
Tags: Early Elementary·Jean Craighead George·Jennifer Gannett·Preschoolers·Wendell Minor·Wolves·Yellowstone