Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth
Candlewick
Press. 2017
ISBN:
9780763694838
Note: While Cathy is on Sabbatical, Louise is writing all the reviews. Cathy will return March, 2018.
Everywhere
you look, from big things like elephants to small things like mushrooms, our planet
is teaming with life. We can start counting with one, but keep on counting and we get many
species. In this engaging informational picture book, Davies explores the many
different kinds of living things that live on Earth and how we are all dependent on one another for survival.
Each double-page
spread has folk art style illustrations rendered in watercolor that mirror the
simple narrative that is perfect for reading aloud. Some spreads offer captions
of more detailed information in a smaller italicized font.
Woven into
the narrative is the message that it is up to us, humans, to save our world. “Human beings are part of the pattern, too,
and we need to make sure it stays big, beautiful, and complicated…because we
could not keep living on Earth if we had to count down instead of up…from MANY
to one.
To write this review, I borrowed a copy of the book from my local public library.
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