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Mrs. Harkness And The Panda (2012)

by Alicia Potter(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0375844481 (ISBN13: 9780375844485)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

review 1: This is a heart jerking and then heartwarming book about a lady and her and her husbands love and desire to find a panda and bring it back to the United Stated where very few, if any, people had ever seen pandas. The story begins by the husband dying in search of the pandas and then Mrs. Harkness taking over her husbands journey. Many people told her that it could not be done and that she would meed the same fate as her husband, but she was determined. This book shows courage and determination and also has adorable pandas. The illustrations are interesting because there is such a mixture of different media types. There are maps as backgrounds, paintings that look like real pictures, watercolor paintings, letters from different languages that make up the shape of countri... morees. This book is just full of color and is extremely pleasing to the eye.
review 2: A great example of creative nonfiction which follows the journey of Mrs. Harkness and her quest to bring home the first panda to the U.S. A story of bravery and determination. The back of the book includes a timeline of the important events of Mrs. Harkness' expedition, author's note, and selected bibliography.Before you judge the ethicalness of the story, the author does explain that in the 1930s zoos were the primary way for scientist to study and appreciate particularly rare or unusual animals. Back then they did not have the convenience of video cameras, livestream television, and commercial air travel that we have today. So the animals needed to be transported to the place of study. less

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