iNK authors are committed to excellence. We believe that children must be exposed to excellence to understand what it takes to produce it. It is wonderful when the world acknowledges our efforts. Here's Publishers Weekly review of our latest collection of Nonfiction Minutes:
FLASH: 30 Animals That Share Our World (9781633225008) reviewed by Publishers Weekly (16.5k print circ, 1.84 uvm).
30 Animals That Share Our World
Edited by Jean Reynolds. Seagrass, $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-63322-500-8
Reynolds, who edits the blog The Nonfiction Minute, offers a digestible collection of 30 animal-themed essays by children’s book writers. The works focus on famous animals, such as White House pets throughout history and Seaman, the Newfoundland dog from the Lewis and Clark expedition. Other essays center on animals for which the authors have particular reverence or fear. Trish Marx writes about her terror of the wolf spiders she would find in webs as a child; she then recounts an incident in which wolf spiders in Australia were flooded out of their burrows: “If this damage in Wagga Wagga was caused by climate change, imagine the invasions and changes that may yet come.” Elsewhere, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent shares the captivating story of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. Photographs accompany each short piece, along with a stylized illustration of each subject. The brief essays introduce many ideas and concepts; readers eager to learn more can do so through lists of suggested resources. Ages 8–12. (May)
Link to the review: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-63322-500-8
Full disclosure: I wrote one of the Minutes in this collection. I found an amazing fact and couldn't resist writing about it. Did you know that a polar bear, asleep on the ice at -40 degrees C or F (they're the same at that temperature point), complete with additional wind chill are invisible at night if you're looking for them with night-vision goggles? You'll have to read the book to find out why.
FLASH: 30 Animals That Share Our World (9781633225008) reviewed by Publishers Weekly (16.5k print circ, 1.84 uvm).
30 Animals That Share Our World
Edited by Jean Reynolds. Seagrass, $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-63322-500-8
Reynolds, who edits the blog The Nonfiction Minute, offers a digestible collection of 30 animal-themed essays by children’s book writers. The works focus on famous animals, such as White House pets throughout history and Seaman, the Newfoundland dog from the Lewis and Clark expedition. Other essays center on animals for which the authors have particular reverence or fear. Trish Marx writes about her terror of the wolf spiders she would find in webs as a child; she then recounts an incident in which wolf spiders in Australia were flooded out of their burrows: “If this damage in Wagga Wagga was caused by climate change, imagine the invasions and changes that may yet come.” Elsewhere, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent shares the captivating story of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. Photographs accompany each short piece, along with a stylized illustration of each subject. The brief essays introduce many ideas and concepts; readers eager to learn more can do so through lists of suggested resources. Ages 8–12. (May)
Link to the review: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-63322-500-8
Full disclosure: I wrote one of the Minutes in this collection. I found an amazing fact and couldn't resist writing about it. Did you know that a polar bear, asleep on the ice at -40 degrees C or F (they're the same at that temperature point), complete with additional wind chill are invisible at night if you're looking for them with night-vision goggles? You'll have to read the book to find out why.
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