Karl, Get out of the Garden! Carols Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - GNGMS, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: May 26, 2017

Review

This book is excellent on many levels. The art is beautiful water color and pen and ink. There is also a portrait of Carolus on page 42 taken from Meyers Lexicon encyclopedia 1905-1909. There are many interesting facts throughout the book. He " hated spending long hours indoors studying Greek and Latin.... (teachers said he) ...wasn't smart enough to be a minister... he often named plants after people he liked....golden flower Rudbeckia hirta, after a favorite teacher, Olof Runback.... Karl's father case the surname Linne after an ancient linden tree that stood on the family land." This would be a great start for middle school's scientific classification study.

Overall Book Score: excellent