- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0525422153
- ISBN-13: 978-0525422150
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 28.3 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #935,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hopeful!, Sep 23 2010
By Ana Braga-Henebry - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Buffalo Are Back (Hardcover)
I loved The Wolves Are Back and love this one even more. My husband has worked in a tallgrass prairie preserve in Kansas where the Buffalo roamed so this book hit home too. The story of destruction and sad lack of vision is told, but the book stays away from useless finger pointing or a hopeless, gloomy message. Indeed, much the opposite way, after reading it to your child you feel as if there is much hope for us and for the natural world as we learn about it! Kudos to the author and to the illustrator who did more than justice to the text. Absolutely gorgeous paintings!
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Buffalo, May 27 2010
By Buffalo Butch - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Buffalo Are Back (Hardcover)
Great chlidrens book. Excellent illustrations. Good read even for a 50+ Buffalo expert. I encourage anyone to purchase it.
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Richie's Picks: THE BUFFALO ARE BACK, May 23 2010
By Richie Partington "Richie's Picks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Buffalo Are Back (Hardcover)
A few years ago, the dynamic duo of Jean Craighead George and Wendell Minor wrote THE WOLVES ARE BACK. It is an absolutely must-have picture book science and history story about the disruption of the ecosystem at Yellowstone National Park triggered by the misguided eradication of the wolves more than eight decades ago, and how recent reintroduction of wolves into that system and elsewhere have led -- in dominoes-falling fashion -- to the reestablishment of a newly-invigorated and balanced ecosystem. What the pair show so vividly in text and illustration -- that there can be unintended and far-reaching consequences to the removal of a link in the ecological chain -- is a lesson that young (and old) people must assuredly learn if our planet is to remain a viable place for the generations yet to come.
In some ways, THE BUFFALO ARE BACK feels like an even more important story. Perhaps, to me, such feelings come from those unforgettable Dorothea Lange images stuck in my head that put such a human face on the tragedy of the Dust Bowl. Perhaps it's the savage accounts I've read about the government-led genocide. Whatever the case, the history story that the dynamic duo share this time around reveals how the destruction of the balanced prairie ecosystem involving the buffalo, the native grasses, and the American Indians led to billions of grasshoppers and the Dust Bowl.
Beyond showing how 'the great plow-up' had been such an ecological disaster, THE BUFFALO ARE BACK goes on to explain how the buffalo were eventually brought back from the brink of extinction, how contour plowing has made a difference, and how a search for tiny stands of native grasses in places like graveyards, old railroad beds, and the like, has provided the opportunity to gather their seed and reintroduce the native specie into the prairie ecosystem.
Again, the failure to learn such lessons of science and history could leave us planet-less.
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