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Title: I Know a Bear Written and illustrated by: Mariana Ruiz Johnson Published by: Schwarz & Wade Books, 2014 (originally published in France as J'ai un Ours by Editions Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, 2011) Themes/Topics: zoo animals, bears, listening Suitable for ages: 3-7 Opening: I know a bear … Continue readingAdd a Comment
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Krull, Kathleen. 2014. What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos. New York: Scholastic. Illustrated by Marcellus Hall.
What's New? The Zoo? is an illustrated overview of zoos that combines history with hard science and social science. Kathleen Krull outlines the history of zoos, and offers insight into what compels us to keep animals, what we've learned from them, and what has changed in zoos since the founding of the first known zoo,
4,400 Years Ago, The Sumerian City of Ur, in Present-Day IraqFrom this beginning, Krull highlights transitional moments in zoos throughout the ages and across the globe. Just a few examples include:
The king of beasts lunges and roars. The King of Ur roars right back, feeling like the ruler of all nature. How delicious to wield his power over dangerous animals! It's the world's first known zoo, and all we're sure about (from clay tablets in libraries) is that is has lions.
- Ancient Egypt and Rome where zoos were created to impress
- Ancient China where the zoo was a contemplative and sacred place
- Sweden where the science of zoology was established in 1735
- The U.S. National Zoo where the concept of zoos protecting threatened species was introduced
- South Africa's Kruger National Park where the protection of rhinos was so successful that rhinos were delivered to other zoos
- Germany, 1907, where the "cageless zoo" concept is introduced
On most pages, humorous, watercolor illustrations nestle around paragraphs of simple font against white space. Several pages, however (including one depiction of fifteen buffalo waiting for a train at Grand Central Station, 1907), are double-spreads with many amusing details.
The very talented Kathleen Krull never disappoints! If you like your science accessible and entertaining, this is the book for you.
A SLJ interview with Kathleen Krull on the history of zoos.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in a zoo? In the newly released Animal Helpers: Zoos, author Jennifer Keats Curtis worked with four zoos to learn more about the duties of a zookeeper and what it takes to care for so many different types of animals. This week we meet Patti Clark of the Austin Zoo and learn what it is like to be the director of the zoo, and why everyday brings a new adventure.
Patti Clark never fails to play the Texas Lottery.
As Director of the private, nonprofit Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary—a volunteer position that occupies her 364 days a year—she hopes to someday use those winnings to construct a new keeper building that would include keeper office space, food prep space, an infirmary, and onsite vet clinic for the animals.
Despite the tremendous number of hours she puts in, Patti never takes a vacation. "There is something magical about this place," says Clark, who somehow manages to also serve on four other nonprofit boards in her "spare" time, "I'm afraid I'll miss something exciting and fun!"
What began as a goat ranch nearly three decades ago has become a permanent home to more than 350 animals including big cats; primates; birds; reptiles; amphibians; mammals, such as llama and deer; and one marsupial—a big red kangaroo initially misrepresented as a much smaller wallaby.
With a meager staff of 26 employees, Clark and her crew ably manage to help these hundreds of exotic and animals, 95% of whom were rescued from neglect and abuse, unwanted by owners, or surrendered to Animal Control officers.
The Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary, one of four zoos featured in the new Animal Helpers: ZOOS, differs from traditional zoos because the rescued animals are on exhibit to unescorted visitors. Guests have a chance to see these animals, to learn about different species, and to get first-hand education and information about the harm that exotic pet ownership and roadside circuses can cause for these creatures. Patti jumped at the chance to be part of this new book because education is a crucial part of the Zoo's mission.
Even though there are days when she feels chained to her desk, Patti's day is never dull.
In January, she says, calls from the 4-H Clubs roll in, as children realize that the animals they have raised are going to be slaughtered.
Last month, they took in a two-foot-long alligator, who arrived in a tiny ferret cage.
This week, she was heavy on tortoise calls. "People buy these tiny cute tortoises in pet stores," she explains, "That animal grows, and it grows fast until it becomes two feet across or more and no longer fits into that small glass aquarium. Once he gets in the backyard and starts eating all of the vegetation, the owner does not want him anymore. We currently have 15 tortoises here."
Patti also answers a lot of calls about unwanted birds and snakes, mostly big pythons and boas that apartment dwellers can no longer keep.
Most of the eight tigers and five lions who now reside at the zoo were purchased as babies and hand-raised by folks who thought it seemed like a good idea at the time. One trucker kept his tiger cub in the truck cab with him for company…until the feline became too big and aggressive.
Leroy the Lion (pictured) is one of Patti's favorites, though he had a similarly troubled past. Leroy served as a "junkyard lion" until he was rescued and brought to his new home in Austin. At first, Leroy, who is maneless because he is neutered, was terribly thin and sick with mange, a skin disease. When he tried to stand, his anklebone shattered. Although scars from the mange still show under his coat, thanks to Austin Zoo vets and staff, Leroy is healed, happy and healthy. His favorite toys? Old tires, which he carries around the yard and guards as if they were prey. He then lunges at, bites and claws the durable rubber. "We get deer donated that have been culled from game management ranches and from a deer processor located close to the Zoo," explains Patti, "Leroy is quiet while stalking his prey. It is amazing that such a large animal can move soundlessly across the enclosure yard. He does like to join in roaring with our two other male throughout the day."
Since the Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary is currently at capacity for some species, Patti spends a portion of nearly every single day networking with other zoos and rehabilitation facilities to find permanent placement for these unwanted animals.
Despite some of the everyday frustrations that come with managing the staff and animals—and not having limitless funds—Patti clearly loves what she does. "In the Zoo, you won't get rich with money, but your life will be rich," she says.
To learn more about the Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary, please visit their Facebook page and website, http://www.austinzoo.org/.
If you want to learn more about the book Animal Helpers: Zoos go to the Sylvan Dell book page http://www.sylvandellpublishing.com/bookpage.php?id=AH_Zoos
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Book: Xander's Panda Party
Author: Linda Sue Park (@LindaSuePark)
Illustrator: Matt Phelan (@MattPhelanDraws)
Pages: 40
Age Range: 4-8
Xander's Panda Party, by Linda Sue Park, is, as you might expect, a picture book about a panda named Xander who wants to throw a party. It's also about inclusiveness and about battling loneliness.
Xander wants to have a rip-roaring panda party. But this turns out to be a bit tricky, as he is the only panda in the zoo. So he expands his idea to invite all of the bears. But it turns out that Koala is actually a marsupial. He doesn't want to leave her out, so Xander has to expand the party to encompass all mammals. But then Rhinoceros wants to bring his bird, and so on, and so on, until everyone at the zoo is invited to the bash. Xander's generosity of spirit is rewarded at the end, when a very special new friend arrives at the zoo.
Park's text is poetic, using lots of rhyme without being sing-songy. Like this:
"But Xander was the only panda. Just one panda at the zoo.
Xander sat and chewed bamboo. He changed his plans and point of view."
Doesn't that just beg to be read aloud? And this:
"Xander's party preparations took great pains and perspiration.
"The menu needs some taste sensations, plus the proper vegetation!""
Delightful! This is a book that parents will be able to read over and over again, because the cadence is so enjoyable. There are also plenty of strong vocabulary words, like "congregating" and "fidgeted."
The message of inclusiveness, while certainly present, is surrounded by the gentle humor of the story, such that it doesn't feel overwhelming. I like that it's not always obvious to Xander that he should keep expanding his party. He really struggles with the decision each time. This having to work to decide to do the right thing will certainly make the book resonate more with young readers.
As rendered in ink and watercolor by Matt Phelan, Xander is adorable. His loneliness at the start of the book is palpable. His joy at the end will bring a smile to any reader's face. The other animals are sketched in, interesting though not quite realistic, but the focus remains on Xander. My favorite page is one filled with small vignettes, as Xander races about the zoo, inviting other creatures to his party, leaving a trail of colored envelopes behind.
It sounds a bit trite to say that a picture book is heart-warming. But what can I say? Xander's Panda Party is heart-warming, entertaining, and eminently read-aloudable. It is not to be missed.
Publisher: Clarion Books (@HMHKids)
Publication Date: September 3, 2013
Source of Book: Review copy from the publisher
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By Lori Gruen
The decision by the administrators of the Copenhagen Zoo to kill a two-year-old giraffe named Marius by shooting him in the head in February 2014, then autopsy his body in public and feed Marius' body parts to the lions held captive at the zoo created quite an uproar. When the same zoo then killed the lions (an adult pair and their two cubs) a month later to make room for a more genetically-worthy captive, the uproar became more ferocious.
Animal lovers across the globe were shocked and sickened by these killings and couldn't understand why this bloodshed was being carried out at a zoo.
The zoo's justification for killing Marius was that he had genes that were already "well represented" in the captive giraffe population in Europe. The justification for killing the lions was that the zoo was planning to introduce a younger male who was not genetically related to any of the females in the group.
Sacrificing the well-being and even the lives of individual animals in the name of conserving a diverse gene pool is commonplace in zoos. Euthanasia, usually by means less grotesque than a shotgun to the head, is quite common in European zoos. In US zoos, contraception is often used to prevent "over-representation" of certain gene lines. The European zoos' reason for not using birth control the way most American zoos do is that they believe allowing animals to reproduce provides the animals with the opportunity to engage the fuller range of species typical behaviors, but that also means killing the undesirable offspring. In both European and US zoos, families are broken up and individuals are shipped to other facilities to diversify and manage the captive gene pool.
If this all has a ring of eugenic reasoning, consider what the executive director of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Gerald Dick, had to say: "In Europe, there is a strict attempt to maintain genetically pure animals and not waste space in a zoo for genetically useless specimens."
The high-profile slaughter of Marius and the lions that ate his body focus attention on an important debate about the purpose of zoos and more generally the ethics of captivity. Originally, zoos were designed to amuse, amaze, and entertain visitors. As public awareness of the plight of endangered species and their diminishing habitats grew, zoos increasingly saw their roles as conservation and education. But just what is being conserved and what are the educational lessons that zoo-goers take away from their experiences at the zoo?
A recent study suggests that zoo-goers learn about biodiversity by visiting zoos. Critics have suggested that the study is not particularly convincing in linking the small increase in understanding of biodiversity with the complex demands of conservation. Some zoos are committed to direct conservation efforts; the Wildlife Conservation Society (aka the Bronx Zoo) and the Lincoln Park Zoo are just two examples of zoos that have extensive and successful conservation programs. Despite these laudable programs, these WAZA-accredited zoos, like the European zoos, are also in the business of gene management and a central tenet of the current management ethos is to value genetic diversity over individual well-being.
Awe-inspiring animals such as giraffes and gorillas and cheetahs and chimpanzees are not seen as individuals, with distinct perspectives, when viewed, as Dick says, as either useful or useless "specimens." They are valued, if at all, as representative carriers of their species' genes.
This distorts our understanding of other animals and our relationships to them. Part of the problem is that zoos are not places in which animals can be seen as dignified. Zoos are designed to satisfy human interests and desires, even though they largely fail at this. A trip to the zoo creates a relationship in which the observer, often a child, has a feeling of dominant distance over the animals being looked at. It is hard to respect and admire a being that is captive in every respect and viewed as a disposable specimen, one who can be killed to satisfy a mission that is hard for the zoo-going public to fully understand, let alone endorse.
Causing death is what zoos do. It is not all that they do, but it is a big part of what happens at zoos, even if this is usually hidden from the public. Zoos are institutions that not only purposely kill animals, they are also places that in holding certain animals captive, shorten their lives. Some animals, such as elephants and orca whales, cannot thrive in captivity and holding them in zoos and aquaria causes them to die prematurely.
Death is a natural part of life, and perhaps we would do well to have a less fearful, more accepting attitude about death. But those who purposefully bring about premature death run the risk of perpetuating the notion that some lives are disposable. It is that very idea that we can use and dispose of other animals as we please that has led to the problems that have zoos and others thinking about conservation in the first place. When institutions of captivity promote the idea that some animals are disposable by killing "genetically useless specimens" like young Marius and the lions, they may very well be undermining the tenuous conservation claims that are meant to justify their existence.
Lori Gruen is Professor of Philosophy, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University where she also coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies and directs the Ethics in Society Project. She is the author of The Ethics of Captivity.
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By Rachael A. Bay
For tigers, visiting your neighbor is just not as easy as it used to be. Centuries ago, tigers roamed freely across the landscape from India to Indonesia and even as far north as Russia. Today, tigers inhabit is just 7% of that historical range. And that 7% is distributed in tiny patches across thousands of kilometers.
Habitat destruction and poaching has caused serious declines in tiger populations – only about 3,000 tigers remain from a historical estimate of 100,000 just a century ago. Several organizations are concerned with conserving this endangered species. Currently, however, all conservation plans focus increasing the number of tigers. Our study shows that, if we are managing for a future with healthy tiger populations, we need to look beyond the numbers. We need to consider genetic diversity.
Genetic diversity is the raw material for evolution. Populations with low genetic diversity can have lower health and reproduction due to 'inbreeding effects'. This was the case with the Florida panther – in the early 1990s there were just 30 Florida panthers left. Populations with low genetic diversity are also vulnerable when faced with challenges such as disease or changes in the environment.
Luckily for tigers, they don't have low genetic diversity. They have very high genetic diversity, in fact. But the problem for tigers is that losing genetic diversity happens more quickly in many small, disconnected populations than in one large population. The question is: how can we keep that genetic diversity so that tigers never suffer the consequences of inbreeding effects.
We used computer simulations to predict how many tigers we would need in the future to keep the genetic diversity they already have. Our study shows that without connecting the small populations, the number of tigers necessary to maintain that variation is biologically impossible. However, if we can connect some of these populations – between tiger reserves or even between subspecies – the number of tigers needed to harbor all the genetic variation becomes much smaller and more feasible. Case studies have shown that introducing genetic material from distantly related populations can hugely benefit the health of a population in decline. In the case of the Florida panther, when individuals from another subspecies were introduced into the breeding population, the numbers began to rise.
We do need to increase the number of tigers in the wild. If we can't stop poaching and habitat destruction, we will lose all wild tigers before we have a chance to worry about genetic diversity. But in planning to conserve this majestic animal for future generations we should make sure those future populations can thrive – and that means trying to keep genetic variation.
Rachael A. Bay is a PhD candidate at Stanford University, and co-author of the paper 'A call for tiger management using "reserves" of genetic diversity', which appears in the Journal of Heredity.
Journal of Heredity covers organismal genetics: conservation genetics of endangered species, population structure and phylogeography, molecular evolution and speciation, molecular genetics of disease resistance in plants and animals, genetic biodiversity and relevant computer programs.
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Last week we were on holiday! We had a fantastic time, saw many wonderful things, caught up with some great friends and all in all just got a buzz from life
We spent one entire day at the zoo being thrilled, amazed and occasionally disgusted by the various creatures we saw. M went crazy over the Komodo Dragon, whilst J fell in love with the fish and bugs.
Now we're back at home we wanted to relived the exploring and excitement of that day at the zoo, and fortunately (thanks to a comment left here by Kelly from We Are Here) , I had the perfect book at hand – Welcome to the Zoo by Alison Jay.
Welcome to the Zoo tells a myriad of stories about events which take place one day at a zoo. There's the boy who loses his balloon, the ostrich who escapes from his keeper, the monkey who steals a picnic, the poodle who causes havoc in his determination to chase after a woman's hat blown off by the wind, and more…
These stories are told entirely without words but simply through observing all the tiny, funny and beautiful detail in Jay's rich illustrations. The book opens with a map of the zoo, and ends with some suggestions of animals or details to look for, but otherwise the stories are waiting there for you to construct yourself.
This is what I both enjoy and (if I'm honest) sometimes feel less enthusiastic about with wordless picture books – if I'm tired I'm happier with a text to follow, but if I (or the girls) have more energy, wordless picture books can be exhilarating in a way that books with a (more or less) "set text" sometimes can't. The inferences M makes to tie a (wordless) story together are often surprising, giving me wonderful insights into her view of the world.
In my experience wordless storytelling stimulates imaginative leaps in ways that books with text don't always manage to achieve. Tanya, from books4yourkids.com has written a really wonderful guest post all about "How to Read a Book without Words (Out Loud)" over at The Well-Read Child – I encourage you to read what she has to say!
The London Zoo?! We lived two minutes from it and went there at least once every week. I remember when the Komodo dragons were first brought – my older child was about 5 then and was very excited and we'd read up all we could about them.
Nice list of songs – will check out the ones I hadn't heard (of) before – thanks! As usual, awesome activities
And have you seen the Anthony Browne book called Gorilla? I find all his books interestingly different from the usual and this one is so too.
Hi Choxbox! How lucky for you to be regular visitors at the zoo… We were there the whole day and still didn't see everything we wanted to. Yes, I know the Anthony Brown book. I love what he's using his laureateship to say (about the importance for everyone of picture books) but I've never fallen in love with his work. I certainly appreciate it, but he's not an author/illustrator I find myself telling others they have to track down. What do you think of him?
Hmm. His work does border on the weird at times but I somehow like it perhaps because it is different from most children's books. 'My Dad' is a hit with my kids. Am not sure if the little one will appreciate 'Zoo', the older will certainly find it interesting, whether she'll fall in love with it I'm not sure!
And yes, many many afternoons were spent in the zoo as we had annual passes – often blogged about it in my old blog. You are right, one simply cannot cover it in one trip. Did you see the new clock outside the Blackburn Pavillion?!
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Happy Independence Day!
It's the 175th anniversary of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence, so I thought I'd do a post on big giant lizards in Houston.
One of the more entertaining aspects of writing novels, in general, and a Cretaceous time-travel novel, in particular, is the research. With THE CHRONAL ENGINE, I had to (re)create an entire ecosystem, which provided an excuse to, among other things, go to zoos and natural history museums.
While (non-avian) dinosaurs are no longer with us, we still have the descendants and/or relatives of many creatures that survived the K-T extinction, including alligators and monitor lizards (and birds, of course). Above, is a photo of me at the Houston Zoo in front of their komodo dragon, the largest monitor lizard. Although its bite is septic, the komodo doesn't really look all that fearsome, particularly behind three-inch glass. Appearances of course can be deceiving, though, and I really wouldn't want to encounter one in the wild.
It's of particular interest to me, though, for a couple reasons: first, monitor lizards are known from the Cretaceous (dinosaurs weren't the only great big scaly things in the ecosystem back then!).
Second, it's related to the mosasaur, the orca-sized (20-30 feet long) aquatic predator from the North American inland sea of the late Cretaceous. Shown below is the Onion Creek mosasaur, on display at the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin:
Below, I'm still at the Houston Zoo, peering at the albino alligator.
Immediately below is a close-up of the animal's forelimb. It's kind of fascinating, how much you can see of the scales on the white animal.
Below, at the Houston Natural Sciences Museum, I'm standing in front of what I believe is a Nile crocodile.
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June is National Zoo and Aquarium Month!
The zoo is a fantastic place for children to get up close to animals that live on all ends of the earth where learning and exploration is fun even to an adult. However, there is so much more to a zoo or aquarium than meets the eye. What you don't see is the rehabilitation programs where zookeepers work with injured animals, animal behavior research and endangered species research to keep these animals around for us to enjoy.
These are the people that help our authors, research the animal behaviors featured in Sylvan Dell books, and check the For Creative Minds sections for accuracy. We would like to thank all the wildlife specialists for their help through the years, and encourage Sylvan Dell readers to support and visit their local zoos and aquariums this month and throughout the year!
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…………………… Today, Kid Lit Reviews would like to welcome Andy Ohman, from Animal Andy by Kathy Sattem Rygg. Andy is the main character in this crazy zoological story about the Aksarben City Zoo. The Zoo is facing budget cuts and must quickly find a way to make up the difference. If they do not, the [...]Add a Comment
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4 Stars Animal Andy Kathy Sattem Rygg 144 Pages Ages: 8 to 12 .................... .................. Back Cover: Ten-year-old Andy Ohman is spending his summer working at the Aksarben City Zoo where his dad is the curator. There are rumors the city might close the zoo due to budget cuts. An anonymous donor has given the [...]Add a Comment
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5 Stars Don't Feed the Boy by Irene Latham Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin Pages: 288 Ages: 8 to 12 ……………………. Back Cover: No kid knows more about zoo life than Whit. That's because he sleeps, eats and even attends home-school at the Meadowbrook Zoo. It's one of the perks of having a mother who's the [...]Add a Comment
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Project Type: Creative Writing
Suggested Grades: 2 and up
A popular version of this genre is Aesop's Fables by Charles Santore, a reinterpretation of twenty-four of the illustrator's favorites, told and illustrated in a classic manner. My favorite illustration depicts "The Hare and the Tortoise" in a trifold page, featuring the entire cast of animals posed against a rolling landscape forested with crumbling Greek pillars, witnessing the triumph of the Tortoise. In choosing the tales and creatures to include, Santore explained:
Classroom Extensions:
- After reading several fables, ask students to describe which human traits are typically assigned to which animals. Why these animals? What is it about their physical traits or behaviors that makes them deserving of these attributes? Challenge students to assign human traits to some animals not traditionally seen in fables.Then ask, "If you were depicted as an animal in a fable, which animal would you be? Why?"
- Provide each student with a moral. Using one of your own, model how a story might be created to illustrate its lesson. Challenge each student to choose a cast of animal characters and write an original fable (they could even include themselves from the activity above). Need some moral ideas? Check out American English Proverbs for some thought-provoking lines.
- Select an illustration from one of the books described above. Challenge students to write the fable it illustrates. Another terrific source for traditional fables is Jerry Pinkney's Aesop's Fables.
- Squids Will Be Squids is Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's collection of fantastically original fables. Check out the related teaching ideas at Scholastic.
Project Type: Argumentative Essay/Research
Suggested Grades: 4 and up
While students used several Internet sources for research on this project, many students used trade books as well. One favorite was Predators by John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin (one of the INsiders series published by Simon and Schuster), as it featured not only profiles of some of the world's top hunters, but also sections on the weapons and instincts that make these killers the pinnacles of their food pyramids. The text reads like any excellent nonfiction text, with plenty of illustrations, captions, text boxes, and cut-away diagrams.
Top 10 Worst Killer Animals You Wouldn't Want to Meet by Fiona Macdonald and David Antram boldly counts down the top killers from around the world, providing curious readers answers to questions such as, "How do jellyfish feed?" and "How do you avoid a shark attack?" Kids find this book fascinating since it profiles not only the predators, abut also those malevolent creatures that carry infection and kill by disease.
But perhaps the hottest commodity was Predator Showdown: 30 Unbelievably Awesome Predator vs. Predator Faceoffs by Lee Martin. Students loved the grudge-matches depicted on the pages, along with the vital stats of each contender. Rather than reveal the winners immediately, the author lists the winner on the book's final page, along with a short explanation of why one animal would overcome the other. I think students enjoyed the format because its competitive nature mirrored the fierce loyalty they began to feel for their own nominee to The HOWL Museum. Unfortunately, it seems that book is out of print, so if you can't find it at your library I'd alternatively suggest Nature's Deadliest Predators by Shelly Silberling. While it is limited to sharks, bears, tigers, and alligators and crocodiles, this text demonstrates the interactions between these predators and the humans who increasingly compete with them for limited habitable space.
- Assign each student a predator, and direct them to learn about that animal's physical traits and behaviors. Below is a list of predators to get you started.
- Use a simple checklist to allow students to peer review first drafts. One of our checklists can be accessed below.
- Publish the essays and post them with an announcement about the HOWL Museum. To create the illusion of a grand opening, I used the image editing site Photo505 to create some "publicity shots." To this day, some students think the museum is real! See the photos below, and feel to use them as well.
- If you're not crazy about the notion of predators, consider research projects on animals that live in productive harmony through symbiosis, a "close, prolonged association between two or more different organisms of different species that may, but does not necessarily, benefit each member" (wordnik.com).
3. Crazy Critters
Project Type: Creative Writing/Art
Suggested Grades: 2 and up
In Scranimals, written by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated by Peter Sis, animals are not only combined with other animals, but with fruits, vegetables and flowers as well! Thus we get spinachickens, broccolions, and bananacondas. Fun poems accompany each full spread illustration. In Animals that Ought to Be: Poems about Imaginary Pets, Richard Michelson and Leonard Baskin exercise equal creative liberties in morphing creatures that are both creepy and utilitarian, such as the Nightmare Scarer which feeds upon bad dreams. In a third book of poems, author Keith DuQuette offers up some hilarious homemade hybrids in Cock-a-Doodle-Moo: A Mixed Up Menagerie.
- Explore the concept of portmanteau words with your students. Unlike compound words that simply combine two smaller words, or contractions which drop letters, portmanteau words combine words and lose letters to form new words entirely. Thus smoke and fog create smog, and breakfast and lunch create brunch. Scranimals is a terrific choice for introducing this concept.
- Have students cut apart magazine images of animals to create collage critters. Students can then write descriptions of these animals, including the unique abilities they're granted given their hybrid qualities.
- Explore the online possibilities for creating crazy animal combinations using a site like Switch Zoo or Build Your Wild Self.
In addition to language and the wheel, perhaps nothing defines human evolution more than the ability to domesticate animals. In fact, according to Keltie Thomas, there are some Animals that Changed the World:
In addition to working with humans, younger readers may also be interested to learn how animals work together. In Do Animals Work Together?, author Faith Hickman Brynie describes the many ways that animals communicate among their colonies, packs, and herds. What's neat about this book is that each spread features a picture page and a text page, with the text page containing new reader sentences at the top, providing basic information, and a fluent reader section at the bottom, providing more details. One text section isn't dependent upon the other, and both can be read without sounding redundant. Enslow Publishing provides an educator 's guide for this book, as well as all books in the I Like Reading About Animals series. (Win this book! See bottom of the post).
- Assign each student an animal that has played a significant role, for good or bad, in human history. After they've researched their animal, allow students to present to the class in a creative way. For example, what would each animal have to say about its life's work in a retirement speech? Would it be proud of its accomplishments?
- Using Animals that Changed the World and other resources, students can practice writing simple expository essays describing how animals assist people. While children can likely generate three ways that dogs are useful to people, including a resource text reinforces the the importance of backing arguments with facts and quotes.
- Pair individual accounts of animal labor from Animals that Changed the World with related fiction texts (for example, real-life sled dogs paired with Stone Fox) or related nonfiction texts (camels and their role in the Silk Route).
5. Creature Comparisons
Project: Poetry/Figurative Language
Suggested Grades: 3 and up
A wonderful mentor text for this activity might be Shakespeare's Zoo (Volume 1) by Laudea Martin. It was "a very old (c. 1896) and well-loved boxed set of the complete works of William Shakespeare, which once belonged to Laudea's great grandmother... that sparked her interest in the richness of Shakespeare's written words." The author soon discovered that in many of Shakespeare's works, both famous and obscure, the Bard employed animal imagery to paint perfect pictures of human passions and pratfalls.
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And, like all Shakespeare, each page will become easier to understand the more you read it. The brilliant words of Shakespeare are meant to be heard, not seen, so read the words aloud and listen to the rhythm. Read them again and again, and let your imagination fill in the details of the scene.
Each illustration was digitally constructed using layers of textured color. Some textures will be immediately recognizable, such as wood grain or leaves; others may be more difficult to discern, but all come together to create whimsical representations of just a few of the animals mentioned by Shakespeare.
For students seeking more details, the creators included a plate-by-plate addendum providing more data about each image, including information on habitats, physical dimensions, and behaviors, with rich words such as iridescent, preening, and vigorously. See other books in the award-winning About... series, or Win this book! See bottom of the post for more information.
- Students can create biographical poems by first selecting adjectives that they feel describe them (pretty, busy, fast, etc.) and then selecting animals that match those adjectives. Students can pair the adjectives and animals in simile form, such as, "I snore like a lion when I'm really, really tired," and "I'm busy as a beaver every day when I get home."
- Creating a flip book is a fantastic way to show off and illustrate the comparisons described above, and the sizes of the books can vary from tiny to huge.
- Collect a pile of animal poem books and let students browse them and share their favorites. Then offer trade books or simply pictures of an assortment of animals, and ask students to write simile poem inspired by a favorite critter.
6. Pack Behavior
Project: Analytic Essay/Novel Extension
Suggested Grades: 5 and up
We all know that wolves and dogs are pack animals, but did you realize that humans are as well? If you don't believe me, ask Cesar Millan, who in Be the Pack Leader has this to say:
And of course, I'd recommend a quick study in pack behavior before reading any novel dealing with dog packs, such Island of the Blue Dolphins, Julie of the Wolves, and Call of the Wild, to name just a few.
For picture books I would recommend Scruffy: A Wolf Finds His Place in the Pack by Jim Brandenburg, Wolves by Sandra Markle, and Face to Face with Wolves, also by Jim Brandenburg.
Classroom Extensions:
- Choose a fact-rich picture book such as Scruffy: A Wolf Finds His Way in the Pack. Once students have read and discussed the text, have them write a simple essay explaining how pack behavior is critical to survival.
- Later, assign students the challenge of drawing comparisons between the group behavior observed in your novels and the previously studied pack behavior.
7. Feathered Friends
Project: Poetry/Research
Suggested Grades: 5 and up
|Screenshot of a LinoIt discussion of Dunbar's The Sparrow (see below)
If you suspect a theme is developing, you would be correct. Poets in particular seem to enjoy expounding upon serendipitous meetings with birds, taking some delight in reading their stoic expressions and wondering about their mysterious lives (see Emily Dickinson's A Bird Came Down the Walk, Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sparrow, and Edwin Morgan's A Gull).
- Share some of these poems with students, particularly Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." This poem's fantastic vocabulary, figurative language, and creepy author's tone can be explored interactively The Interactive Raven and Knowing Poe: Annotated Poe.
- Compare and contrast Poe's poem with others about chance meetings with birds. This post discusses using a cool collaborative site called LinoIt to create online discussions, complete with stickies, images, and videos.
- Assign each student a bird, asking them to explore its history and mythology, as well as its physical characteristics and habits. Armed with this information, challenge students to write a poem about a meeting with this bird, basing it upon some of the exemplars above.
- Check out the haunting poem Carrion Crow by John Heath-Stubbs (definitely share the audio!), which describes a literal bird's eye view of history. After discussing the text and researching the battle to which it refers, ask students to write a similar poem as observed from a bird's point of view.
- If you feel that this activity is for the birds, consider allowing students to write poetry about their own choice of animal after conducting some basic research. Eric Carle's Animals Animals features animal poems by some of the literary greats (think Kipling, Carroll, Sanburg, Rossetti) accompanied by his signature cut-paper illustrations. These poems might also serve you if you choose to tackle any of the Creative Comparisons activities listed above.
Project: Argumentative Essay/Research
Suggested Grades: 6 and up
For ages 8 and up, the dilemma of animal captivity is thoughtfully explored in Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan, the 2013 Newbery Winner. From the Author's Biography: Katherine was inspired to write The One and Only Ivan after reading about the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, the "Shopping Mall Gorilla." The real Ivan lived alone in a tiny cage for twenty-seven years at a shopping mall before being moved to Zoo Atlanta after a public outcry. I highly recommended this text as a read-aloud, or as a class novel for grades 4 and up. Check out the official book trailer below.
Classroom Extensions:
- Let students explore a number of zoo and circus themed picture books. What messages about zoos and their purposes seem to be conveyed in those texts? Have more recent titles on these topics attempted to redefine the roles of these institutions?
- Assign students to prepare both pro and con arguments for zoos, and then divide the class arbitrarily to debate the issue.
- Upon the debate's conclusion, invite students to write an argumentative essay for the position they would like to take, being certain in their writing to address the claims of the opposing viewpoint.
Project: Art/Research
Suggested Grades: 5 and up
Animal Tribe introduces students to the mythologies and wisdom of animals as celebrated by various indigenous peoples from around the globe. Explore that site to see what's offered, and consider ways that these studies could be incorporated into your existing curriculum.
Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf by Stephen R. Swinburne and Dorje's Stripes by Anshumandi Ruddra can get this discussion started.
In the latter book, a beautiful Royal Bengal Tiger arrives one day, broken and tired, at a small Buddhist Monastery in Tibet. He begins to lost his stripes as his fellow tigers are poached from the surrounding countryside. Hope for the future shines, however, when one day a single stripe, and a beautiful female tiger, return. ((Win this book! See bottom of the post).
Classroom Extensions:
- Visit Animal Tribe and see how that site's activities can be adapted to your lesson plans.
- Rather than traditional animal research projects, assign each student an animal that is threatened or endangered. In addition to describing the causes of their animal's predicament, they should offer possible solutions that serve all parties involved.
- In connection with a text such as Once a Wolf, appoint students to play various roles including ranchers, conservationists, tourists, etc. Plan a debate with each interest group required to provide support for their point of view.
10. Home Sweet Home
Project: Creative Writing
Suggested Grades: 2 and up
Not Inside This House! written by Kevin Lewis and illustrated by David Ercolini, addresses this same topic in a much more humorous way.
A curious boy named Livingstone, who finds ordinary toys and diversions a bore, loves to explore. To his mother's horror, however, he enjoys bringing the results of those explorations home. From the book:
She did implore...
"Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse,
I'll have no bugs inside this house!
I'll say it once. Won't say it twice.
To speak again will not suffice."
As you can see, Kevin Lewis' text is replete with wonderful words, and David Ercolini's vivid illustrations beg closer inspection. See more here at the artist's site.
Classroom Extensions:
- Play devil's advocate using The Salamander Room. Is it right for Brian to keep this wild creature in his home? If the salamander's comfort demands so many changes to Brian's room, then is this the best place for it?
- In Not Inside This House, the pets Livingstone chooses to bring home become increasingly large and troublesome. When his mother finally relents and agrees that he can have the one bug he started with, we have to wonder, Is this what he had planned all along? Have students choose an extraordinary animal they'd like to adopt, and then create both sensible and outlandish reasons they'd give for why this animal should be permitted.
Wow! What a fantastic post. Many new books new to me. Loved this. Lots of great ideas! Love your posts. Thanks for sharing this.
So many great new books and ideas to check out! Thank you for this post!
(Many of your book links are broken, though...)
Thanks for the kind comments! Thanks also for the heads-up about the broken links.
I don't have a classroom, but it seems that everyone I know is a teacher. I'll be passing along some of these suggestions.
Thanks for the excellent ideas! I love having my kids write their own fables.
Thanks for all the great ideas! I love having my 4th graders write their own fables.
I've used animal books to talk about cleanliness and different ways animals get clean (rivers, licking, etc).
I don't know if my comment was posted, but whether it was or not I just wanted to add that I am a first year teacher so I love getting new books for my classroom library :)
I am retired but the blog stirs my excitement! Makes me want to get involved with children so I can use the wonderfully creative ideas!
How do I use animal books? We are knee deep in our informational writing unit and we have been looking at the various ways authors provide information. We have looked deeply at Ice Bear by Nicola Davies and how she provided two voices in her book about polar bears. I'm not a "Tweeter"... yet :)
Great post. We wanted to have some stories available for kids to learn updated life skills. We just published our first fable, Scruff Takes Charge. Available on Amazon. The book is something like Good to Great meets Aesop.
I have enjoyed all your blog posts for teaching middle schoolers. Picture books have created an imaginative connection for this age group.
I really enjoyed your examples. I think this blog would be a valued asset to any primary school teacher. Some great suggestions on making reading and learning fun :)
Thanks, all for the comments! I'm encouraged, and already working on the next ten ways to use animal picture books in the classroom!
My students loved The One and Only Ivan! Thanks for all of the great suggestions!
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It's summer, and you know what that means… it's time to hit the zoo. Heres a handy zoo locator to get you goin'. Go… shoo… scat…
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I may get a strongly worded letter from PETA for saying so, but I think zoos are good for people and for animals. There is just something different about seeing an animal up close with your own eyes instead of on TV. There is a primal connection that happens deep down when a child sees the immensity of an elephant, or the cold black stare of a boa and this is important when we are teaching our children to be good stewards of the environment.
Pruned has a great post about an art installation at a Vienna Zoo that is doing just that. Through a series of exhibits, the zoo is making a statement about pollution and its effects on the animals' habitats. Now, even idyllic zoos aren't safe from barrels of TOXIC WASTE.
When Beth was creating the illustrations for the book "What Animal Are You", she insisted on realistic habitats for her animals as part of their educational value. Perhaps we should have had a few more discarded plastic bottles and McDonalds wrappers! Beth is quite handy at animal drawings, and a zoo is one of the best places for your child to hone their budding sketching or photography skills.
Of course, I would rather we could all see these fantastic animals in their natural habitats instead of cooped up behind plexiglass and concrete moats, but sometimes, their enclosures can be quite accomodating, unlike some enclosures I know of…
Which brings me to my next topic: PEOPLE WATCHING. I'm an avid people watcher, and have the binoculars to prove it… Actually, it is a lot of fun to plunk yourself down on a park bench, or mall cafeteria and just observe who goes by. If any of you have pets, I'm sure you've asked yourself what they must think about all your strange actions. That's exactly what I wondered about when I saw this little guy at the LINCOLN PARK ZOO:
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It's summer, and you know what that means… it's time to hit the zoo. Heres a handy zoo locator to get you goin'. Go… shoo… scat…
Fine, keep reading…
I may get a strongly worded letter from PETA for saying so, but I think zoos are good for people and for animals. There is just something different about seeing an animal up close with your own eyes instead of on TV. There is a primal connection that happens deep down when a child sees the immensity of an elephant, or the cold black stare of a boa and this is important when we are teaching our children to be good stewards of the environment.
Pruned has a great post about an art installation at a Vienna Zoo that is doing just that. Through a series of exhibits, the zoo is making a statement about pollution and its effects on the animals' habitats. Now, even idyllic zoos aren't safe from barrels of TOXIC WASTE.
When Beth was creating the illustrations for the book "What Animal Are You", she insisted on realistic habitats for her animals as part of their educational value. Perhaps we should have had a few more discarded plastic bottles and McDonalds wrappers! Beth is quite handy at animal drawings, and a zoo is one of the best places for your child to hone their budding sketching or photography skills.
Of course, I would rather we could all see these fantastic animals in their natural habitats instead of cooped up behind plexiglass and concrete moats, but sometimes, their enclosures can be quite accomodating, unlike some enclosures I know of…
Which brings me to my next topic: PEOPLE WATCHING. I'm an avid people watcher, and have the binoculars to prove it… Actually, it is a lot of fun to plunk yourself down on a park bench, or mall cafeteria and just observe who goes by. If any of you have pets, I'm sure you've asked yourself what they must think about all your strange actions. That's exactly what I wondered about when I saw this little guy at the LINCOLN PARK ZOO:
What's this little guy thinking??? Take a guess in the comments section and you could WIN BIG!
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A police refused to suppress a protest made by Brazilian social guilds against millionaires expenditures made by the Government for the preparation of the World Cup, as they require the prioritization of investment in security, education and health.
In the video posted to YouTube shows the officer opposing his boss then forcing him to stop the advance of a mass protest in Sao Paulo.
The policeman was sent by his superior for refusing to hold the event in Sao Paulo.
The action of the police has been hailed by netizens, who report on the social networks that demonstrations in Brazil are gaining more and more followers.
Police held late on a large group of demonstrators protesting against high public spending in the Confederations Cup.
As is known, various Brazilian football icons in favor of demonstrations that perform social guilds that country, including Neymar, 'Bebeto' and Romario.
While the global football star, 'Pele', today received a huge "virtual Boo" in social networks after urging his countrymen to abandon the protests in Brazil and concentrate on the Confederations Cup. Romario said at the time: "silent Pele is a poet."


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GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- What began as an annoying loose thread with Wednesday's shocking 5-3 loss to lowly Belarus has now become a full-fledged unraveling of the gold medal cloak for the United States' junior team following a disheartening 3-1 loss to the Czech Republic on Thursday night.
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The CME says during 2015, roughly 87% of daily livestock futures and options trade occurred during the proposed hours.
Corn and soybeans closed marginally lower today, with SRW wheat closing 2 to 3 cents higher. HRW futures ended mixed and HRS was 1 to 2 cents lower. Cattle closed higher and lean hogs were mostly lower.
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Attache pegs the Argentine corn crop at 24 MMT and the wheat crop at 10.8 MMT.
Corn ended around a penny lower, with soybeans marginally higher. Winter wheat ended weaker. Live cattle ended mostly weaker, with feeders and lean hogs mixed.
In this article, your editors break down today's USDA report data and highlight the information most important to farmers.
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Corn is marginally lower, with soybean and wheat futures 1 to 2 cents lower. Livestock futures favoring a firmer tone.
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What are some company-wide organizational and operational attributes that work well at Facebook, but don't work so well at Google?
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The biggest organizational philosophy that works well at Facebook but doesn't work well at Google is Facebook's value of "Move fast and break things." In Zuckerberg's S-1 letter from earlier in 2012, he wrote, "The idea is that if you never break anything, you're probably not moving fast enough." (1) At Google, if you break something, the dominant cultural response would be that you didn't do enough testing.
This translates into a few operational differences:
Facebook's only about a tenth of the size of Google in number of employees (3, 4), so time will show whether the culture of moving fast and breaking things will continue to scale as the company grows and as more things break.
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I'm getting more into this retro mod thing. I wore this mix of blues and greens with an Anne Klein Rose Goldtone Bracelet watch. It's vintag-ey enough with an oversized face and skinny roman numerals to feel a bit old school.
After these pics were taken, I swapped my jewelry for gold and rose golds instead (see last close up pic). Michael and I popped home before we headed out again so I grabbed the chance to do the jewelry switch. I don't usually wrist stack but thought the golds worked better with the watch hence the bracelet and slight ring pile on. Figured it was an easy way to add focus.
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A system used by most states to determine ownership of property acquired during marriage. In contrast to the community property system, the common law property system states that property acquired by one member of a married couple belongs solely to that person unless the property is specifically put in the names of both spouses.
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Under the common law property system, if a married woman purchases a car and puts only her name on the title, that car belongs exclusively to her. If the woman lived in a community property state, however, the car would automatically become the property of both the woman and her husband.
For a married couple living together in harmony, the technical details of ownership may seem trivial. However, the details can become very important during divorce or upon death.
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Gorgeous! Love the colors, they're so beautiful together here! Love the transition between the light and the dark colors and the details, everything's stunning!
Beautiful atmosphere, very dreamlike.
Only forty five minutes for this? This is excellent! Awesome pic mate.
"WORM SIGN!!!" God I loved Westwood's adaptation game sooo much -or at least, watching my uncle play it when I was too young to handle the controls!- it still brings familiar shivers down my spine every time I hear the unit's voices. Man, is Frank Herbert is a genius or what.
Dune!!!!That's my favorite book ever! Now I'll have to love you, for drawing it!!!And it's very faithful to the book, your drawing. I'm add it to my favorites n_n
The landscape composition is amaxing, particularly the colouration. youve managed to effectively give a feel of grittiness and sand, especially the sky. It paves a feeling thats out of thi s world. Excellent piece!
This looks very cool, especially the fade in the background.
Kooool!!!! Good times
Didn't they remake this to miniseries movie
Didn't they remake this to miniseries movie
Well it was a book series first, by F. Herbert. Then there was a movie made by David Lynch which got the craziest mixed reviews. Then Sci-Fi channel produced two miniseries, Dune and the children of dune. Both much more in depth than the movie but equally great in my opinion. If you happen to dive into this series I would suggest reading the books first because the movies/series leave out all kinds of important details. Thus the mixed reviews on Lynch's flic.
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I kinda did it out of order, then cause.....I just finished watching the two miniseries And I'm about to watch the first movie I'll hold that for now and read the book
I kinda did it out of order, then cause.....I just finished watching the two miniseries And I'm about to watch the first movie I'll hold that for now and read the book
Yea Lynch's film really pissed off the right wing fans. But if you read the book you will note there isnt many details into the surroundings. So lynch had to make up the world you see before you in his movie. The book is all about mental and phycological reactions to a time of war. He based most of his characters and issues around the midle east tension that we all know to well. Spice under the sand ( oil ) Freman locals who live in the dessert ( local Arabs) and the figt between the new ( western worlds ) and the old traditions.
Holy freakin crap!!!!! I never thought of it like that But in the miniseries.......Dune and Children of Dune The Fremen won.....with the help of Muadi and his chilrdren.... don't know the right spellings What about the worms......what do they symbolize.....
That's kinda deep if you try to imagine how the movie,and the miniseries, and the war is goin on right now....
That's kinda deep if you try to imagine how the movie,and the miniseries, and the war is goin on right now....
well the symbolize nature and the connection we have to it. If you get to the books the forth novel is all about Leto ( Paul's kid ) becoming a god and living for 3500 years. He transforms Dune into a normal planet, trees rivers, and cities. But as a result of making nature conform to our needs it kills all the worms but him. And without the worms there is no spice. No spice is bad for everyone. And in the end the Freman do win just as the Arabs and other middle eastern cultures have thrived for thousands of years. Although a lot of tradition may have been lost the core values of the religious beliefs have survived. Its a nature verses industry, simple as that.
Read the books there great and way more on point than I could ever be.
Read the books there great and way more on point than I could ever be.
I love how the landscape fades into the stars. It feels as if there's a story behind this.
That's awesome I have been waiting for you to unveil this one.
Well this isnt the one I was talking about. I did a movie poster-esc doodle of all the Key Dune characters ( first generation ) but its so detailed Im still working on it. However I just finished another book in the series and I had to whip this one out. SO in theory there is one more to come ( time permitting ) I leave for Singapore in two weeks.
wow! great work on the sand flow! thats hard for me to do...
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Tom Daschle -- "Maybe he's sentimental or just cheap, whatever the case, isn't it too bad that the rest of Washington doesn't understand that a penny saved is a penny earned."
Sanders's youth movement is powered by the energy of the new campus left. What does it believe?
RINDGE, New Hampshire—Twenty-three minutes into his typically rambling, hourlong stump speech in the arena here, at a private liberal-arts college on the Massachusetts border—after he had decried the Koch brothers and the prescription-drug companies, after he had accused Wall Street of bribing its way to deregulation, after he had called out the corporate media and the political establishment—Bernie Sanders turned to the bleachers behind him, which were filled with college students waving blue signs and chanting his name.
A sly, unusual smile crossed his face. "I feel like a rock-n-roll star!" he exclaimed, taking off his jacket and tossing it to a startled youth behind him. He pantomimed tearing off his sweater, too, prompting a fresh chant of "Ber-nie! Ber-nie!" Then he grinned sheepishly. "All right, nothing else is coming off," he said, and continued to the next topic—the sins of Wal-Mart.
The number of American teens who excel at advanced math has surged. Why?
On a sultry evening last July, a tall, soft-spoken 17-year-old named David Stoner and nearly 600 other math whizzes from all over the world sat huddled in small groups around wicker bistro tables, talking in low voices and obsessively refreshing the browsers on their laptops. The air in the cavernous lobby of the Lotus Hotel Pang Suan Kaew in Chiang Mai, Thailand, was humid, recalls Stoner, whose light South Carolina accent warms his carefully chosen words. The tension in the room made it seem especially heavy, like the atmosphere at a high-stakes poker tournament.
Stoner and five teammates were representing the United States in the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad. They figured they'd done pretty well over the two days of competition. God knows, they'd trained hard. Stoner, like his teammates, had endured a grueling regime for more than a year—practicing tricky problems over breakfast before school and taking on more problems late into the evening after he completed the homework for his college-level math classes. Sometimes, he sketched out proofs on the large dry-erase board his dad had installed in his bedroom. Most nights, he put himself to sleep reading books like New Problems in Euclidean Geometry and An Introduction to Diophantine Equations.
Black poverty is fundamentally distinct from white poverty—and so cannot be addressed without grappling with racism.
There have been a number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations. Perhaps the most clarifying comes from Cedric Johnson in a piece entitled, "An Open Letter To Ta-Nehisi Coates And The Liberals Who Love Him." Johnson's essay offers those of us interested in the problem of white supremacy and the question of economic class the chance to tease out how, and where, these two problems intersect. In Johnson's rendition, racism, in and of itself, holds limited explanatory power when looking at the socio-economic problems which beset African Americans. "We continue to reach for old modes of analysis in the face of a changed world," writes Johnson. "One where blackness is still derogated but anti-black racism is not the principal determinant of material conditions and economic mobility for many African Americans."
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they're wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
When news broke late last year of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, most people in the rest of the country, and even the state, probably had to search a map to figure out where the city was. I knew exactly, having grown up in the next-door town of Redlands (where the two killers lived) and having, by chance, spent a long period earlier in the year meeting and interviewing people in the unglamorous "Inland Empire" of Southern California as part of an ongoing project of reporting across America.
Some of what my wife, Deb, and I heard in San Bernardino before the shootings closely matched the picture that the nonstop news coverage presented afterward: San Bernardino as a poor, troubled town that sadly managed to combine nearly every destructive economic, political, and social trend of the country as a whole. San Bernardino went into bankruptcy in 2012 and was only beginning to emerge at the time of the shootings. Crime is high, household income is low, the downtown is nearly abandoned in the daytime and dangerous at night, and unemployment and welfare rates are persistently the worst in the state.
Facebook suffers a blow from regulators in India, proving that the fight for an open web is more than an abstraction.
The web may be lovely, dark, and deep, but most of us don't actually venture very far into it.
Back in 2013, Nielsen reported Americans visited an average of 90 different domains per person each month. That's a startlingly low number—equivalent to about three domains each day—and one that crept down over the years, even as people spend more and more time online overall. I suspect the average person visits even fewer domains today, as tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google increasingly design interfaces—walled gardens of engagement and advertising—aimed at discouraging their users from visiting other sites.
That's part of what's so interesting about the recent decision by officials in India to block what's called "zero-rating" or "sponsored data"—the practice of exempting certain kinds of Internet use from counting toward a person's data plan. The move effectively bans a Facebook program called Free Basics, a suite of lightweight versions of popular sites—including, of course, Facebook—that don't eat up data the way visiting other mobile sites does. The idea is to give people an affordable way to get online, but it has long been criticized by advocates for net neutrality as a way of giving an unfair advantage to certain websites.
For decades the Man of Steel has failed to find his groove, thanks to a continual misunderstanding of his strengths.
Superman should be invincible. Since his car-smashing debut in 1938, he's starred in at least one regular monthly comic, three blockbuster films, and four television shows. His crest is recognized across the globe, his supporting cast is legendary, and anybody even vaguely familiar with comics can recount the broad strokes of his origin. (The writer Grant Morrison accomplished it in eight words: "Doomed Planet. Desperate Scientists. Last Hope. Kindly Couple.") He's the first of the superheroes, a genre that's grown into a modern mass-media juggernaut.
And yet, for a character who gains his power from the light of the sun, Superman is curiously eclipsed by other heroes. According to numbers provided by Diamond Distributors, the long-running Superman comic sold only 55,000 copies a month in 2015, down from around 70,000 in 2010—a mediocre showing even for the famously anemic comic-book market. That's significantly less than his colleague Batman, who last year moved issues at a comparatively brisk 150,000 a month. Mass media hasn't been much kinder: The longest-running Superman television show, 2001's Smallville, kept him out of his iconic suit for a decade. Superman Returns recouped its budget at the box office, but proved mostly forgettable. 2013's Man of Steel drew sharp criticism from critics and audiences alike for its bleak tone and rampaging finale. Trailers for the sequel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, have shifted the focus (and top billing) to the Dark Knight. Worst of all, conventional wisdom puts the blame on Superman himself. He's boring, people say; he's unrelatable, nothing like the Marvel characters dominating the sales charts and the box office. More than anything, he seems embarrassing. Look at him. Truth? Justice? He wears his underwear on the outside.
The Daily Show correspondent's new weekly TBS series, Full Frontal, made a stellar debut Monday.
For all the talk of Trevor Noah's middling tenure thus far at The Daily Show, people probably need to stop worrying about Jon Stewart's legacy. That show itself might be floundering, but Stewart's legacy is still felt across late night, from Stephen Colbert to Larry Wilmore to John Oliver at HBO. And: Samantha Bee, whose barnstorming debut of her new weekly TBS show Full Frontal on Monday was an acidly funny half-hour that had none of the shakiness typically associated with a new late-night show.
Full Frontal's format is less cozy than many a talk show—Bee stands for the entire ride—and it makes her Daily Show-style segments feel all the more blistering. She's dispensed with the padding that makes most late-night shows interminable, like musical guests, or sit-down interviews with someone shilling a book. Like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, the show is running weekly, to give her and her writers time to focus on well-researched bits and remote pieces. If Monday night's premiere was anything to go by, that's a great idea—Bee ripped into three long, topical, planned-out pieces with the kind of furious, witty aplomb we haven't seen enough of on television since Jon Stewart rode out into the sunset.
In United States v. Texas, the Supreme Court has put forth a question on the definition of the take-care clause, which in the past been difficult to decipher.
They don't make justices like the late Stephen J. Field any more.
That's probably a good thing. Field was appointed to a tenth seat on the Court by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, and stuck around for 34 years. Ian Millhiser, author of Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted, calls Field "the worst Justice in the history of the Court." That's quite an honor. By comparison, today's grouchiest justice would be Captain Kangaroo—Field also had to beat out Samuel "Old Bacon Face" Chase, who rampaged up and down the Eastern seaboard tippling port and jailing Jeffersonians, and James "Scrooge" McReynolds, such a deep-dyed bigot that he would walk out of conference when one of his Jewish colleagues spoke.
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before 1776. One can find scattered references in her work that suggest that
from the latter date through the 1850s there was an increase in Guadalupan de-
votion. But Dunnington's contention that after 1850 "there was no diminution
in [Guadalupe's] cult" (p. 57) is supported with very little dated evidence before
the 1940s, other than various community celebrations of the Guadalupe feastday
in December.
This disappointing historical treatment of the Guadalupe devotion in New
Mexico prevents Dunnington's study from being the comprehensive work to
which she aspired. Nevertheless, it is the obligatory treatment upon which future
work must build. Dunnington has provided a great service in marshalling those
references which she presents. Her chapter on the debated history of the
Guadalupan devotion in Spain and Mexico is an excellent summary for students.
Her wide-ranging and highly informed interpretive presentation of New Mexi-
can Guadalupan devotion in recent decades is unmatched for other regions of
the United States and arrives at challenging conclusions for avant-garde scholars
of contemporary Guadalupan devotion.
Oblate School of Theology, San Antonzo ROBERT E. WRIGHT
Madero in Texas. By David Nathan Johnson, edited by Felix D. Almarz Jr. (San
Antonio: Corona Publishing Co., 2oo001. Pp. xii+195. Preface, list of charac-
ters, photographs, epilogue, appendix, acknowledgments, notes, glossary,
bibliography, photo credits, index. ISBN o-931722-o8-x. $27.00, cloth.)
Thanks to the intervention of esteemed historian F6lix Almariz, this fascinat-
ing revolutionary episode has been reclaimed. Originally written as a master's
thesis by a student of his-David Nathan Johnson, who died in 1986-the work
has been expertly edited by Dr. Almariz, who I also suspect had a say in the love-
ly cover and layout.
At the outset a "Cast of Characters" effectively hints at the dramatic nature of
the story, even as it serves as a handy reference point, particularly for those read-
ers not well versed in the Mexican Revolution. The account itself begins with a
balanced, insightful summary of the Diaz regime. Meanwhile Madero, a progres-
sive hacendado, used scientific agricultural techniques to improving the efficiency
of his vast holdings, then shared the increased profits with his workers in the
form of higher wages and better housing. He also directed his physician to treat
these families for free, but was Madero typical of the landed class in any re-
spects? For example, were his laborers tied to the land in debt peonage?
No references are made to Texas during the Diaz period; after all, Madero had
not yet arrived. Nevertheless it would have been interesting to tease out the Texas
links of Madero and other residents of Coahuila, the state that at one point had
been united with Texas as one state (and as such, was the subject of Vito Alessio
Robles' majesterial Coahuila y Texas-2 vols., Mexico, 1945-1946- which Dr. Al-
mariz has used in his own work.) Later, whenever Madero returns to Mexico, the
Texas references disappear. Again, this is understandable, but it would have been
interesting to explore concurrent Texas events. Not surprisingly the author does
Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 106, July 2002 - April, 2003. Austin, Texas. The Portal to Texas History. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101223/. Accessed February 11, 2016.


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