Tanya Anderson (1)

Children's nonfiction (with glossary) - giraffe conservation (as of 2020).
serviceable book about the critically endangered state of the giraffe, the causes leading to its endangerment, and what scientists/activists are doing to help. This book won't help much for reports on the animal itself, and doesn't have high-interest text, or many large glossy pictures for casual giraffe fans, but for those kids and adults who truly care, it has a lot of good information about the giraffe species' critical state that generally has gone unrecognized, with plenty of references to further resources should the reader want to continue learning.… (mehr)

This slim volume tells the tale of three arsenals that exploded during the height of the Civil War, causing multiple deaths and great concern among the area residents who thought the enemy was on their doorstep. Coming from the Pittsburgh area I was surprised to see that was the first, and most damaging explosion. The author includes interesting sidebars and a lengthy bibliography. There are three times the amount of citations for Pittsburgh as either of the other two cities even though the text of the book seems to be evenly divided. What I don't understand is the bibliographic section on women and child labor. Those books discuss topics that occurred well after the civil war and although interesting, seem out of place in this book.… (mehr)