  | Green : the story of plant life on our planet Author: Davies, Nicola | |
| Price: $23.78 | ||
Summary:
Take a lively look at the biology of plants on Earth--and their vast importance to our planet.
| Illustrator: | Sutton, Emily |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (01/15/24)
Booklist (03/01/24)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (A) (00/01/24)
The Hornbook (00/01/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 03/01/2024 Lush landscapes and urgent environmental insights unite in this offering for young readers that emphasizes the critical role plants play in the health of our vulnerable environment. Reunited after prior nonfiction successes (Tiny Creatures, 2014; Many, 2017), zoologist-author Davies and illustrator Sutton make their message here quite clear: “GREEN is the most important color in the world.” Sutton’s watercolor-and-acrylic illustrations highlight leaves as unifiers of the “great green nations” that sustain air quality on Earth. The artwork also shifts in scale down to a microscopic level in support of evocative language that explains how carbon dioxide “swooshes in through tiny holes” in the leaves while cells densely packed with chloroplasts make “bundles of the greenest green.” Davies presents green as far more than just a color and offers a time line to contextualize the eons it took to create a healthy ecosystem and the climate-change precipice on which we now teeter. Although no back matter supports the research, this offers a clear call to action for budding environmentalists to make green their favorite color. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
