Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive - Hardcover

Love, Ann; Drake, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1770492682 ISBN 13: 9781770492684

Publisher: Tundra Books, 2013

Synopsis

The Black Death. Yellow Fever. Smallpox. History is full of gruesome pandemics, and surviving those pandemics has shaped our society and way of life. Every person today is alive because of an ancestor who survived--and surviving our current and future pandemics, like SARS, AIDS, bird flu or a new and unknown disease, will determine our future. Pandemic Survival presents in-depth information about past and current illnesses; the evolution of medicine and its pioneers; cures and treatments; strange rituals and superstitions; and what we're doing to prevent future pandemics. Full of delightfully gross details about symptoms and fascinating facts about bizarre superstitious behaviors, Pandemic Survival is sure to interest even the most squeamish of readers.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Drake and Ann Love are a sister writing duo. Together they have published 33 non-fiction titles for kids. Their first book to hit the bestseller list was The Kids Cottage Book published in 1992. Since then they have written many bestsellers and award winners including Sweet! The Delicious Story of Candy, Alien Invaders: Species That Threaten Our World, and, most recently, Talking Tails: the Incredible Connection Between People and Their Pets and Yes You Can! Your Guide to Becoming an Activist. Jane and Ann live in the Toronto area. The author lives in Toronto and King, Ontario, Canada.

Bill Slavin has illustrated over eighty books for children, including The Big Book of Canada by Christopher Moore, The Library Book by Maureen Sawa, It's a Snap! George Eastman's First Photograph and All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine by Monica Kulling. Among his many honors, he has won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Blue Spruce Award, and the Zena Sutherland Award for Children's Literature. Bill lives near Millbrook, Ontario.

From Booklist:

Columbus sailed the ocean blue—transporting smallpox, syphilis, and scurvy, too! This title offers a tour of diseases through time, from old-world plagues, poxes, and pestilences to the contemporary global epidemics of AIDS/HIV, H1N1, and SARS. Sisters Love and Drake take a lighthearted narrative approach to this tragic saga, which is accompanied by Slavin’s colorful and often comical illustrations. Dramatic scenarios, news stories, and even fables personalize and contextualize the accounts of human devastation throughout history, and biographical sketches of notable scientists and health-care workers, including Louis Pasteur and Florence Nightingale, add further interest. A brief glossary and index may leave young researchers wishing for more extensive back matter. Still, this overview will fascinate many and leave them pondering the hygienic behavioral changes that pandemic-surviving societies have achieved. As the authors state, clean living is “the reason you’re alive.” Feeling lousy? Wash your hands long enough to sing the alphabet. Really. Do it now. Grades 6-9. --Gail Bush

About this edition

• Publisher: Tundra Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1770492682
• ISBN 13: 9781770492684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Slavin Bill