Monday, June 9, 2014

The Plant Hunters by Anita Silvey - ADVISABLE

Silvey, Anita The Plant Hunters, 74 p. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012. $20. Content: G.  NON-FICTION.

When you picture a “botanist”, you probably see someone standing in a meadow sniffing flowers, or gathering leaves, or counting the blades of grass.  You certainly don’t see someone hiding from jungle people so that they won’t be killed or defying the government of China in order to find medicine or someone dying a slow, painful death.  But those scenarios were distinct possibilities for early plant hunters.  And even today, there are still dangers, challenges and lonely searching for new plants all over the world.  

Anyone reading this will never look at a botanist in the same way again.  Excellent information and very usefull for a strong science curriculum.  

EL, MS - ADVISABLE.  Cindy, Library Teacher

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