Danielle Clode

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Animal-Human Relationships
From turtles and koalas to animal babies, explore several new books that examine the lives of animals and their relationships with humans around the world.
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Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
Danielle Clode, 2023, W.W. Norton & Company
Themes: Nature, Animals, Mammals
Clode investigates the history, physiology and personalities of koalas. Along the way, she reflects on the need to protect these unique Australian marsupials.
Take-aways: Bring life science alive with information about these adorable animals.

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Whether helping educators keep up-to-date in their subject-areas, promoting student reading in the content-areas, or simply encouraging nonfiction leisure reading, teacher librarians need to be aware of the best new titles across the curriculum and how to activate life-long learning. - Annette Lamb… (mehr)

A beautifully researched, beautifully written biography of Jeanne Barret, the first woman to sail around the world. Barret was born to peasant stock in France, became the servant and then the assistant to botanist Philibert Commerson and who shipped with him, dressed as a man, on Bougainville's scientific expedition in 1766. Clode goes back to archival sources from across the world, and avoids unfounded speculation about Barret's life (a major annoyance in an earlier biography of the same subject). She also brings in her personal experiences as a researcher and as a young woman voyaging on the family yacht Calif, however these discursions illuminate rather than dominate the story of Jeanne Barret. I loved this humble and illuminating book, with its insistance that there is more to be found lying undiscovered in the archives, and its lyrical descriptions of France and the Pacific.… (mehr)