A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet

From two award-winning creators comes a picture book that reveals the hidden wonders of how Saharan Dust impacts the world: from slowing a hurricane to nourishing a rainforest.

This dust . . .
of what lived once
sustains what lives today
and what will be born . . .
tomorrow.

An ancient catfish becomes a fossil, and as the lake where it lived dries up, the fossil turns to dust—but this isn't ordinary dust. This dust begins in Chad, West Africa, but winds carry it across the continent, over the At...