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PublisherTilbury House Publishers

ISBN-100884484858

ISBN-139780884484851

eBay Product ID (ePID)242538060

Product Key Features

Book TitleCharlotte's Bones : the Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field

Number of Pages40 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAnimals / Marine Life, Science & Nature / Fossils, Science & Nature / Earth Sciences / Water (Oceans, Lakes, Etc.)

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes, Carver, Alison

GenreJuvenile Nonfiction

AuthorErin Rounds

Book SeriesTilbury House Nature Book Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight17.5 Oz

Item Length10.4 in

Item Width9.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2018-941045

ReviewsBrilliant.Erin Rounds' writing feels like magic. Use this book as a mentor text to teach showing not telling, imagery, and sentence fluency. It's also a lovely example of how to make science come to life through a narrative story., 5 Stars Author Erin Rounds has written a lovely, lyrical story of Charlotte's journey and discovery accompanied by beautiful illustrations in serene colors. In addition, there are six pages of in-depth back matter to give youngsters much more background and information about this extraordinary find. The back matter includes information on other Ice Age creatures that lived in the area, a good glossary, and a list of other resources for further study. This is a winner. , "Brilliant. Erin Rounds' writing feels like magic. Use this book as a mentor text to teach showing not telling, imagery, and sentence fluency. It's also a lovely example of how to make science come to life through a narrative story." Melissa Taylor, Imagination Soup "Extensive back matter provides details about the scientific impact of the discovery, beluga whales and other Ice Age mammals of the Champlain Valley, a glossary, and further resources. A well-researched historical narrative." Caroline Davis, Benicia PL, ACLNC BayViews " A substantial introduction to a significant North American fossil." Kirkus "5 Stars Author Erin Rounds has written a lovely, lyrical story of Charlotte's journey and discovery accompanied by beautiful illustrations in serene colors. In addition, there are six pages of in-depth back matter to give youngsters much more background and information about this extraordinary find. The back matter includes information on other Ice Age creatures that lived in the area, a good glossary, and a list of other resources for further study. This is a winner." Rosi Hollinbeck, Manhattan Book Review, Brilliant. Erin Rounds' writing feels like magic. Use this book as a mentor text to teach showing not telling, imagery, and sentence fluency. It's also a lovely example of how to make science come to life through a narrative story. , 5 Stars Author Erin Rounds has written a lovely, lyrical story of Charlotte's journey and discovery accompanied by beautiful illustrations in serene colors. In addition, there are six pages of in-depth back matter to give youngsters much more background and information about this extraordinary find. The back matter includes information on other Ice Age creatures that lived in the area, a good glossary, and a list of other resources for further study. This is a winner., Extensive back matter provides details about the scientific impactof the discovery, beluga whales and other Ice Age mammals of the ChamplainValley, a glossary, and further resources. A well-researched historicalnarrative.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromFirst Grade

Series Volume Number0

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Grade ToFifth Grade

Dewey Decimal599.542

Synopsis2019 Moonbeam Silver Medal Many thousands of years ago, when a sheet of ice up to a mile thick began to let go of the land, the Atlantic Ocean flooded great valleys that had been scooped out by glaciers, and the salty waves of an inland sea lapped the green hills of Vermont. Into this arm of the sea swam Charlotte. Her milky, smooth, muscled body sliced slowly through the water like scissors through silk. Like a chirping canary, her voice echoed across dark waters showing the way to her pod as belugas have done for millions of years., In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer's field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale's skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean? The answer--that Lake Champlain had once been an arm of the sea--encouraged radical new thinking about geological time scales and animal evolution. Charlotte's Bones is a haunting, science-based reconstruction of how Charlotte died 11,000 years ago in a tidal marsh, how the marsh became a field, how Charlotte found a second life as the Vermont state fossil, and what messages her bones whisper to us now about the fragility of life and our changing Earth.

LC Classification NumberQE766.R68 2018