Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe

by Chelsea Clinton, Gianna Marino (Illustrator)

Overview

The author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "She Persisted" introduces young readers to 12 endangered animals of the world, sharing what makes them special, and also what threatens them. She provides helpful tips on what everyone can do to help prevent these animals from disappearing entirely. Full color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593623961
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	03/05/2024
Pages:	28
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.06(h) x 0.64(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Chelsea Clinton is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World; She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History; She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game; She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference; Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe; Welcome to the Big Kids Club; It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!; Start Now!: You Can Make a Difference; with Hillary Clinton, Grandma's Gardens and Gutsy Women; and, with Devi Sridhar, Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? She is also the Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, where she works on many initiatives, including those that help empower the next generation of leaders. She lives in New York City with her husband, Marc, and their children. You can follow Chelsea Clinton on Twitter @ChelseaClinton or on Facebook at facebook.com/ChelseaClinton.

Gianna Marino (giannamarino.com) was born in San Francisco and spent her early years galloping horses through Golden Gate Park. She's made a living as an apprentice to a muralist, a jewelry designer, a product designer and a horse carriage driver. Addicted to foreign adventure, Gianna has traveled worldwide, including Europe, Asia, Australia and Central and South America. Between explorations, she lives and works in Northern California and still gallops on horses.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Don't Let Them Disappear:

"A winning heads up for younger readers just becoming aware of the wider natural world." —Kirkus Reviews

"An inviting . . . appeal to care for the planet and its most vulnerable creatures." —Publishers Weekly

"A sure bet for elementary school libraries." —SLJ

From the Publisher

2019-01-28

An appeal to share concern for 12 familiar but threatened, endangered, or critically endangered animal species.

The subjects of Marino's intimate, close-up portraits—fairly naturalistically rendered, though most are also smiling, glancing up at viewers through human eyes, and posed at rest with a cute youngling on lap or flank—steal the show. Still, Clinton's accompanying tally of facts about each one's habitat and daily routines, to which the title serves as an ongoing refrain, adds refreshingly unsentimental notes: "A single giraffe kick can kill a lion!"; "[S]hivers of whale sharks can sense a drop of blood if it's in the water nearby, though they eat mainly plankton." Along with tucking in collective nouns for each animal (some not likely to be found in major, or any, dictionaries: an "embarrassment" of giant pandas?), the author systematically cites geographical range, endangered status, and assumed reasons for that status, such as pollution, poaching, or environmental change. She also explains the specific meaning of "endangered" and some of its causes before closing with a set of doable activities (all uncontroversial aside from the suggestion to support and visit zoos) and a list of international animal days to celebrate.

A winning heads up for younger readers just becoming aware of the wider natural world. (Informational picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews