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$9.99
Published on Oct 02, 2014 | 112 Pages
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$9.99
Published on Oct 02, 2014 | 112 Pages
Prepare to be disgusted, amazed, shocked (and informed) by the astonishing and mysterious creature that has annoyed humanity for centuries:
Rats!
Able to claw straight up a brick wall, squeeze through a pipe the width of a quarter, and gnaw through iron and concrete, rats are also revealed in this fascinating book to be incredibly intelligent and capable of compassion. Weaving together science, history, culture, and folklore, award-winning writer Albert Marrin offers a look at rats that goes from the curious to repulsive, horrifying to comic, fearsome to inspiring. Arresting black-and-white scratchboard illustrations with bold red accents add visual punch to this study of a creature that has annoyed, disgusted, nourished, and intrigued its human neighbors for centuries.
* “[A] lively and informative overview of the history and behavior of the widely encountered rodent…. It’s a different sort of discussion… for this well-known historian and biographer and one that he has clearly enjoyed, as will a wide variety of nonfiction readers and animal fans. There’s a bibliography of adult sources and children’s nonfiction as well as a listing of literary works featuring rats.”
—School Library Journal, starred review
“Pleasantly icky.”
—Booklist
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Includes bibliography, further reading list, and a list of rats in literature
Rats!
Able to claw straight up a brick wall, squeeze through a pipe the width of a quarter, and gnaw through iron and concrete, rats are also revealed in this fascinating book to be incredibly intelligent and capable of compassion. Weaving together science, history, culture, and folklore, award-winning writer Albert Marrin offers a look at rats that goes from the curious to repulsive, horrifying to comic, fearsome to inspiring. Arresting black-and-white scratchboard illustrations with bold red accents add visual punch to this study of a creature that has annoyed, disgusted, nourished, and intrigued its human neighbors for centuries.
* “[A] lively and informative overview of the history and behavior of the widely encountered rodent…. It’s a different sort of discussion… for this well-known historian and biographer and one that he has clearly enjoyed, as will a wide variety of nonfiction readers and animal fans. There’s a bibliography of adult sources and children’s nonfiction as well as a listing of literary works featuring rats.”
—School Library Journal, starred review
“Pleasantly icky.”
—Booklist
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Includes bibliography, further reading list, and a list of rats in literature
Author
Albert Marrin
Albert Marrin is a much-decorated historian and writer whose most recent book, Terror of the Spanish Main, was called “addictive reading” in The Horn Book. He lives in Riverdale, New York.
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