Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson - Hardcover

Ehrlich, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152162275 ISBN 13: 9780152162276

Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books, 2003

Synopsis

Rachel Carson was always curious about the world around her. As a girl she loved being outside, always exploring and wanting to know more about the universe. As an adult Rachel wrote books about what she loved--including Silent Spring, a book that changed the world.
Amy Ehrlich's lucid and loving prose, complemented by Wendell Minor's luminous paintings, tells a memorable story of the power of the word, the power of the individual, and--most of all--the importance of following your heart.
An epilogue sheds light on Rachel Carson's work and life.

About this title

About the Author:

AMY EHRLICH has written and edited many books for children, including Joyride, an ALA Best Book of the Decade. Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson is her first book for Harcourt. She lives in Vermont.
WENDELL MINOR is the renowned illustrator of more than twenty picture books. His A Lucky Thing, written by Alice Schertle, was an ABA's Pick of the Lists and a Child Magazine Best Book of the Year. He lives in Connecticut.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-5-She loved the woods, built a summer cottage in Maine, wrote about the ocean, and finally published her landmark book about the poisonous pesticides killing wildlife. Ehrlich skims a few highlights of Carson's life and work, sometimes poetically. "A transparent, elongated paramecium drifted slowly across the microscope's field.-In that simple one-celled organism she saw the complexity of the universe." The author focuses on Carson's love of nature and writing, but her life seems uneventful. The dozen dated and sketchy episodes begin with a childhood scene in 1912, then touch on teenage and college years, and skip from a 1929 bit of research at Woods Hole to 1945 when Carson edited documents for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. Though the biologist doesn't come to life in the text, Minor's fine watercolor-and-gouache paintings provide splendid full- and double-page views of various settings and credible portraits. While the spare narrative may be somewhat nebulous for primary-grade readers, it might serve as an evocative introduction for slightly older children. The epilogue, dating Carson's death and crediting her with starting the environmental movement, mentions Maine's Rachel Carson Wildlife Preserve.
Margaret Bush, Simmons College, Boston
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0152162275
• ISBN 13: 9780152162276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Minor Wendell