Author : JoAnn Hackos

written by Sy Montgomerybook review by JoAnn Hackos Sy Montgomery’s most recent book focuses largely on the work of The Turtle Rescue League, a facility in New England that is focused on recovering sick and injured turtles and returning them to the wild. Their facility is armed with security systems because turtles are so valuable[…]

Ed Yong begins An Immense World with an interesting fable. He imagines a room with an elephant, a robin, an owl, a bat, a rattlesnake, a spider, a mosquito, a bumblebee, and a human. He explains that each creature experiences the room in a different way. The human, Rebecca, uses her eyes until it becomes[…]

written by Ben Goldfarb, W. W. Norton, 2023review by JoAnn Hackos We all know that Cliff Swallows nest under bridges. In fact, the Cliff Swallows that nest under bridges have longer wings than those that nest on cliffs. As a result of a human-created environment, the birds have evolved. Throughout this account, Goldfarb describes the[…]

Richard Mabey begins his accounts of Weeds with a wonderful statement: “Plants become weeds when they obstruct our plans, or our tidy maps of the world. If you have no such plans or maps, they can appear as innocents, without stigma or blame.” We are, of course, quite focused on weeds on our property or[…]

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) The Girl Who Drew Butterflies is considered a children’s book, but that misleading designation should not lead adults to avoid reading it. It has a plethora of wonderful illustrations, but that only makes it all the more[…]