Today, I finished reading Children of Summer: Henri Fabre's Insects by Margaret J. Anderson to the boys. It is a lovely book which introduces naturalist and scientist Henri Fabre and many of his insect investigations. Here is a review from Booklist. Imagine having a father who is known as a hermit, accused of being a poacher, and thought to be strange and simpleminded. According to this fictionalized story, French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre, a contemporary and correspondent of Darwin and a friend of John Stuart Mill, may have been such a man. Using the voice of Fabre's 10-year-old son Paul, who, according to Fabre's own writings, often helped his father, Anderson tells of Fabre's passion for learning about cicadas, scorpions, and the other "children of summer." The man's curious behavior will draw readers in, and the descriptions of the oddities of the insect world will keep them interested: children are bound to remember Fabre's shooting a cann...
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I'm thrilled & shocked to win~thank you, what a nice surprise!
Mary :)
Thank you for the free stamp ~ it came in the mail the other day & I was thrilled :) Mary
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