This is the Earth

Reviewed by: Kathy George - Gray Public Library, Gray, Me, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 9, 2016

Review

In this non fiction picture book, author Diane Shore introduces young readers to our earth and how man's actions, be they well intentioned or not, have affected the environment. With simple rhyming text, she speaks to the reader of what can happen if we think of only ourselves and what is good for us, without first thinking through the consequences of or actions on the earth we share. Wendall Minor's soft, vivid illustrations show the reader how the earth has been hurt by man's carelessness. shore offers some suggestion's what we can do to repair some of the damage. Use this as an introduction to units on the environment - the Earth book by Parr, On Earth by Karas, the Earth and I by Asch, Fuzzy Mudd by Sacher, Chernobyl Wild Kingdom:Life in the Dead Zone by Rebecca Johnson, books about Wangari Maathai, and One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul.

Overall Book Score: very good