From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6-- This well-researched treatise describes the beginning of the environmental movement with the work of Rachel Carson and a offers a plea for future care of the Earth. It includes a summary table of important events in Carson's life. Unfortunately, it reads like a preachy term paper. Half-page to full-page black-and-white photos capture Carson's passion and respect for the environment from a young child on the family farm to speaking before the Senate against the use of DDT. Judith Harlan's Sounding the Alarm: A Biography of Rachel Carson (Dillon, 1989) and Kathleen V. Kudlinski's Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology (Viking, 1988) convey the same message in cripsly written and well-illustrated formats. --Renee Blumenkrantz, Davis Community Library, Bethesda, MD
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
A biography of the biologist focusing on the events that led her to expose pesticide pollution in her book "Silent Spring" and her legacy as a founder of the environmental movement.
