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All sorts of Career Ideas for Kids I recently heard a great answer to the baneful query often put to children, What do you want to be when you grow up? BIG was the answer. But not to ask the question doesn’t mean parents and kids don’t need to think about it. It is important for youngsters to identify their strengths and discover careers that match their interests.

The new Career Ideas for Kids series, publications of the new Facts on File imprint, Checkmark Books, should prove very helpful in this self-discovery process. They make the logical leap from what children like to career possibilities. Each volume opens with several pages entitled Make a Choice, which offer two routes: wait until college to think about what you want to do or start now figuring out your options. If kids from ages ten to 13 make the latter choice, author Diane Lindsey Reeves has loads of can’t-put-it-down information in the first three volumes of the series.

With an underlying approach of motivation and reward, Reeves, who teaches career-planning skills to students, organizes the books well. Each offers a wide array of occupations related to the theme, general content about careers in the field as a whole, help in narrowing the choices, and additional resources including more books and places to practice job skills. The style is friendly, bright and breezy with kid-friendly drawings and photos. The information is up-to-the-minute, solid, and easy to absorb with bold headings. Some sections call for reader responses. Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Art ($18.95, 0816036810) introduces occupations such as animator, architect, interior designer, museum curator, photojournalist, and others. Each vocation is described as a whole followed by a feature on those in that field including what they wanted to be as a child. The featured people tells kids specifics such as how they started, where their ideas come from, the good and the bad about what they do, and what they would do if they were kids with that interest. Fascinating reading, here.

Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Science ($18.95, 0816036802) and Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Talking follow the same outline. The science occupations include several new careers such as avian veterinarian, limnologist, hydrogeologist, but most are well known. However, the Talking careers include some surprises hotel manager, air traffic controller, flight attendant, law enforcement officer, politician, retailer. There’s no doubt that verbal communication is a critical part of such jobs, just as with the more predictable speech pathologist and broadcaster.

A great strength of these introductions to career paths is the freedom to accept or reject each vocation. The What’s Next? section at the end of each book has three options: Red Light (Stop, I’ve found it!), Yellow Light (This is close but not quite it), and the Green Light (I need to go on to something else). Such choices give young readers the sense of being in control, and having that feeling is a big part of making a decision.

Three more Career Ideas for Kids titles on Computers, Sports, and Writing will be released in November. All titles are also available in paperback.

LouAnn Jones is a reviewer with a son headed for a job in Saint Louis, Missouri.

All sorts of Career Ideas for Kids I recently heard a great answer to the baneful query often put to children, What do you want to be when you grow up? BIG was the answer. But not to ask the question doesn't mean parents and…

Biography

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As astronauts and scientists explore deeper into space and introduce the possibility of landing on Mars, it is easy to forget when man pondered how the earth moved. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), the scientist whose discoveries about the heavens caused accusations of heresy, is revered in a unique new biography by Dava Sobel, author of Longitude. This book is not only a biography of Galileo, but that of his daughter, and attempts successfully to complete the picture of the scientist as a religious and family-oriented man.

Of all of Galileo’s children, his daughter, Maria Celeste, mirrored his own brilliance, which is evident in the detailed letters that for the first time have been translated into English. These letters, many of which were destroyed or lost, bring to life Galileo’s personality and conflicts. Maria Celeste was the product of Galileo’s illicit relationship with Marina Gamba of Venice. Because she was born out of wedlock, she was therefore unable to be married, and the convent became the natural place for her to find a home. She and Galileo, however, never lost contact. She sewed his collars, made him candied citrons, and offered advice on his latest projects. Somehow, Maria Celeste found a compromise between her role as nun and as the greatest supporter of the man whom many deemed the Catholic church’s greatest enemy.

The first man to declare that the earth was not the center of the universe, Galileo would forever battle others and himself about the Heavens he revered as a good Catholic and the heavens he revealed through his telescope. The hardship and ridicule Galileo faced may cause readers to reflect on scientific findings today that many believe to be against the principles allowed by nature and religion. Bringing to life the entire era, Sobel shows us the importance of Galileo’s patrons, the Medici family. She also writes about the hardships of that time, including the bubonic plague and the Thirty Years’ War.

Galileo’s Daughter, a biography unlike any other written of Galileo, could serve as an invaluable text for a western civilization course or for anyone interested in knowing more about the world around them. After all, Galileo’s history is also our history.

Charlotte Pence is an English professor at Belmont University in Nashville.

 

 

As astronauts and scientists explore deeper into space and introduce the possibility of landing on Mars, it is easy to forget when man pondered how the earth moved. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), the scientist whose discoveries about the heavens caused accusations of heresy, is revered in…

Memoir

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The scariest word in the English language excluding IRS has to be cancer. And what if you heard doctors say cancer to you, not once, but three different times regarding three different illnesses? Hamilton Jordan, former campaign manager and chief of staff for President Jimmy Carter, was diagnosed on three different occasions with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. He had been given a 25 percent chance of survival, but claims that by taking control of his own treatment, he raised his projected odds to more than 50 percent. That was almost 15 years ago. How people react emotionally, intellectually, and physically to the simple words

The scariest word in the English language excluding IRS has to be cancer. And what if you heard doctors say cancer to you, not once, but three different times regarding three different illnesses? Hamilton Jordan, former campaign manager and chief of staff for President Jimmy…

Children's & YA

Review

Review by bookpagedev

All sorts of Career Ideas for Kids I recently heard a great answer to the baneful query often put to children, What do you want to be when you grow up? BIG was the answer. But not to ask the question doesn’t mean parents and kids don’t need to think about it. It is important for youngsters to identify their strengths and discover careers that match their interests.

The new Career Ideas for Kids series, publications of the new Facts on File imprint, Checkmark Books, should prove very helpful in this self-discovery process. They make the logical leap from what children like to career possibilities. Each volume opens with several pages entitled Make a Choice, which offer two routes: wait until college to think about what you want to do or start now figuring out your options. If kids from ages ten to 13 make the latter choice, author Diane Lindsey Reeves has loads of can’t-put-it-down information in the first three volumes of the series.

With an underlying approach of motivation and reward, Reeves, who teaches career-planning skills to students, organizes the books well. Each offers a wide array of occupations related to the theme, general content about careers in the field as a whole, help in narrowing the choices, and additional resources including more books and places to practice job skills. The style is friendly, bright and breezy with kid-friendly drawings and photos. The information is up-to-the-minute, solid, and easy to absorb with bold headings. Some sections call for reader responses. Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Art ($18.95, 0816036810) introduces occupations such as animator, architect, interior designer, museum curator, photojournalist, and others. Each vocation is described as a whole followed by a feature on those in that field including what they wanted to be as a child. The featured people tells kids specifics such as how they started, where their ideas come from, the good and the bad about what they do, and what they would do if they were kids with that interest. Fascinating reading, here.

Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Science and Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Talking ($18.95, 0816036837) follow the same outline. The science occupations include several new careers such as avian veterinarian, limnologist, hydrogeologist, but most are well known. However, the Talking careers include some surprises hotel manager, air traffic controller, flight attendant, law enforcement officer, politician, retailer. There’s no doubt that verbal communication is a critical part of such jobs, just as with the more predictable speech pathologist and broadcaster.

A great strength of these introductions to career paths is the freedom to accept or reject each vocation. The What’s Next? section at the end of each book has three options: Red Light (Stop, I’ve found it!), Yellow Light (This is close but not quite it), and the Green Light (I need to go on to something else). Such choices give young readers the sense of being in control, and having that feeling is a big part of making a decision.

Three more Career Ideas for Kids titles on Computers, Sports, and Writing will be released in November. All titles are also available in paperback.

LouAnn Jones is a reviewer with a son headed for a job in Saint Louis, Missouri.

All sorts of Career Ideas for Kids I recently heard a great answer to the baneful query often put to children, What do you want to be when you grow up? BIG was the answer. But not to ask the question doesn't mean parents and…

Children's & YAMiddle Grade

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Coco De Young’s A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt combines the everyday details of one girl’s childhood with the Great Depression an era that young adults may have studied in history books but rarely would have encountered so directly. Set in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the novel follows the life of 11-year-old Margo Bandini and her Italian immigrant family as the Depression works its way right up to the Bandini doorstep.

Margo feels helpless when she learns that, because of a bad debt brought on by medical treatment her younger brother received for a leg infection, the bank is threatening to take her family’s home away. Then her teacher, Miss Dobson, instructs her class to write a letter to someone they feel has done heroic work large or small to help people during this difficult period.

In the depths of her own personal depression, Margo finds a newspaper article about Eleanor Roosevelt, written by a journalist Margo admires. The article says that Mrs. Roosevelt has received hundreds of letters requesting help. She intends to have each one answered. These words inspire Margo; she has at last found someone who was willing to listen to an American girl . . . to an eleven-year-old . . . Along with her letter to the First Lady, Margo encloses her father’s Victory Medal from World War I a symbol of her family’s devotion to America and waits. The reply she finally receives is more wonderful and complicated than anything she, or the reader, could have guessed.

In her Author’s Note at the end of the novel, De Young tells the reader that while fiction, the heart of the story is true ; her father’s family, also living in Johnstown, wrote a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help during the Depression. Like Margo and her family, they too received much-needed financial blessings from the First Family.

The heart of this story is true in even larger ways, however: it speaks to the need for love and connectedness that all families and young adults at times face. And it speaks to the hope that sometimes a call for help will receive a compassionate reply.

(Ages 10 and up) Vivian Wagner is a freelance writer in New Concord, Ohio.

Coco De Young's A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt combines the everyday details of one girl's childhood with the Great Depression an era that young adults may have studied in history books but rarely would have encountered so directly. Set in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the novel follows…

Biography

Review

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Dwight David Eisenhower is a biographer’s dream and nightmare. Few men in history have had so much of their lives as part of the public record; from the time he first accepted his appointment at West Point until his final moments at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., his every move was noted.

But who was Dwight David Eisenhower? As a child of the ’60s, I knew him only as a bald-headed former president, and later on, as a World War II general in a high school history text. If you’re not a student of history, you probably don’t know much more than that.

Yet, as Perret shows us, Eisenhower’s was a life well led; more than almost anyone else of his generation, Ike realized his fullest potential from humble beginnings, and he took himself far beyond his own personal limitations. He was a leader of great armies, but not a tactical genius himself. He was a genius at logistics and at motivating people to do the things they did best. The juggling act that he performed during WWII between the egos of Patton, Montgomery, and Bradley is astonishing.

With its wealth of detail, Eisenhower almost inevitably invites conflicts of interpretation. For example, Ike’s father was a dark, obsessive man whose behavior obviously affected his son. Perret tells us over and over of Eisenhower’s emotional distance from those that loved him, but he never directly makes the connection between this and how the father treated the son.

Dwight David Eisenhower is a biographer's dream and nightmare. Few men in history have had so much of their lives as part of the public record; from the time he first accepted his appointment at West Point until his final moments at Walter Reed Hospital…

HistoryBlack History

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The Negro spiritual and those who helped bring its euphonic sound from the early invisible African-American church to the attention of global audiences is ably captured by Andrew Ward in his new book, Dark Midnight When I Rise. Ward weaves his sources into a masterful narrative and places the experiences of the Fisk Jubilee Singers in historical and cultural context. Founded after the Civil War, Fisk was established in Nashville in 1866 as an educational institution for Americans of African descent newly freed from the insidious institution of slavery. Within five years, Fisk officials were faced with indebtedness that seemed insurmountable. White northern missionary and university treasurer George Leonard White attempted to rescue the financially besieged academy by organizing a group of students into a band of singers to raise needed funds. Taking the lyrics of the invisible black church, where slave worshippers met clandestinely in hush harbors, they presented to the world the unique musical genre of the Negro spiritual. Named the Jubilee Singers in memory of the Jewish year of Jubilee, the Fisk Jubilee Singers first toured in 1871-1872. It is Ward’s assertion that the singers deserve a place at the table with other civil rights proponents. He illustrates that while a racially rigid caste system may have segregated them physically, it never expropriated their indomitable spirits. When they carried the Negro spiritual from its hush harbor roots to concert stages, not only did they save their university, they also manifested their people’s unfulfilled aspiration for equality in America. An award-winning author and historian, Ward has produced projects for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). Dark Midnight When I Rise is the companion volume to Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory, a one-hour documentary produced by PBS, as a part of the American Experience series airing in May.

Linda T. Wynn is the editor of Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee and adjunct instructor of history at Fisk University.

The Negro spiritual and those who helped bring its euphonic sound from the early invisible African-American church to the attention of global audiences is ably captured by Andrew Ward in his new book, Dark Midnight When I Rise. Ward weaves his sources into a masterful…

Children's & YA

Review

Review by bookpagedev

All sorts of Career Ideas for Kids I recently heard a great answer to the baneful query often put to children, What do you want to be when you grow up? BIG was the answer. But not to ask the question doesn’t mean parents and kids don’t need to think about it. It is important for youngsters to identify their strengths and discover careers that match their interests.

The new Career Ideas for Kids series, publications of the new Facts on File imprint, Checkmark Books, should prove very helpful in this self-discovery process. They make the logical leap from what children like to career possibilities. Each volume opens with several pages entitled Make a Choice, which offer two routes: wait until college to think about what you want to do or start now figuring out your options. If kids from ages ten to 13 make the latter choice, author Diane Lindsey Reeves has loads of can’t-put-it-down information in the first three volumes of the series.

With an underlying approach of motivation and reward, Reeves, who teaches career-planning skills to students, organizes the books well. Each offers a wide array of occupations related to the theme, general content about careers in the field as a whole, help in narrowing the choices, and additional resources including more books and places to practice job skills. The style is friendly, bright and breezy with kid-friendly drawings and photos. The information is up-to-the-minute, solid, and easy to absorb with bold headings. Some sections call for reader responses. Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Art introduces occupations such as animator, architect, interior designer, museum curator, photojournalist, and others. Each vocation is described as a whole followed by a feature on those in that field including what they wanted to be as a child. The featured people tells kids specifics such as how they started, where their ideas come from, the good and the bad about what they do, and what they would do if they were kids with that interest. Fascinating reading, here.

Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Science ($18.95, 0816036802) and Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Talking ($18.95, 0816036837) follow the same outline. The science occupations include several new careers such as avian veterinarian, limnologist, hydrogeologist, but most are well known. However, the Talking careers include some surprises hotel manager, air traffic controller, flight attendant, law enforcement officer, politician, retailer. There’s no doubt that verbal communication is a critical part of such jobs, just as with the more predictable speech pathologist and broadcaster.

A great strength of these introductions to career paths is the freedom to accept or reject each vocation. The What’s Next? section at the end of each book has three options: Red Light (Stop, I’ve found it!), Yellow Light (This is close but not quite it), and the Green Light (I need to go on to something else). Such choices give young readers the sense of being in control, and having that feeling is a big part of making a decision.

Three more Career Ideas for Kids titles on Computers, Sports, and Writing will be released in November. All titles are also available in paperback.

LouAnn Jones is a reviewer with a son headed for a job in Saint Louis, Missouri.

All sorts of Career Ideas for Kids I recently heard a great answer to the baneful query often put to children, What do you want to be when you grow up? BIG was the answer. But not to ask the question doesn't mean parents and…

Biography

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Acknowledging all of her marriages, her name was Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenel Goudeket. The world knew her simply as Colette, the surname of her father, who, though aspiring to be a writer, exerted less influence on her than any of the other men whose names she took. Most influential of all was her Christian namesake, her mother, Sido, and through much of Colette’s voluminous autobiographical writing it is that figure who casts the longest, most inexorable shadow. One of the many triumphs of Judith Thurman’s sumptuous new biography is her essential portrait of maman Colette, who believed in her daughter’s talents and her instincts but never gave up trying to subdue her. That emotional tug of war affected Colette permanently. In her early relationships with men, Colette sought domination and mastery. Later, after a five-year lesbian relationship and a second marriage, she turned the tables. She didn’t become a mother herself until age 40, and then she purposefully withheld affection from her only child, a daughter. Only when she married the third time, at 62, did she seem to find balance in a romantic alliance. The difficulty of achieving such equilibrium in love affairs was, of course, her great narrative theme. Thurman gives us all the love affairs (including one with her stepson, who was 16 to her 47) and all the novels, the fleeting sweetness and the lingering tristesse. No paradoxes or ambivalences escape her. As a writer, Colette was a psychological realist with an occasional sentimental streak.

Admired by writers as diverse as Cocteau and Mauriac, Colette is arguably the finest French writer of her sex in the 20th century. Her first novel appeared under her first husband’s pseudonym in 1900, and she was still writing shortly before her death, at age 81, in 1954.

Besides the signature novels Cheri, The Vagabond, Gigi she wrote about almost everything except politics and religion, which bored her. Though intensely independent, especially when it came to money, she had no real interest in feminism. As Thurman says, There was not an idea that could carry Colette away, or a sensation that couldn’t. More than anything, she wanted to be her own creation. A village girl from Burgundy who came to galvanize tout Paris, she made her life her writing, which is never entirely free of its central character: Colette. Thurman has put all her vitality back on the page, and vitality is what Colette is all about.

Acknowledging all of her marriages, her name was Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenel Goudeket. The world knew her simply as Colette, the surname of her father, who, though aspiring to be a writer, exerted less influence on her than any of the other men whose…

Review

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What do you think about big government? This hot-button question is just one of many permeating Tyrannosaurus Sue, the true story of the most impressive, most complete, and most litigated T. rex skeleton yet unearthed. But Tyrannosaurus Sue is about much more than big government and lawyers in fact, it’s mainly about the impact on a scientific and societal level of a very big dinosaur. After being unearthed on a Sioux Indian reservation by dinosaur-hunter Peter Larson, Sue became a mini-sensation as one of the most important finds in paleontological history. However, Larson wasn’t digging on private land as he thought, and his history of naive handshake agreements would soon be put to the test. With frightening quickness, Sue was confiscated by the FBI and stowed for nearly 10 years while the courts unraveled conflicting claims of ownership by Larson, the Sioux Indian tribe, the U.S. government, and the Sioux rancher on whose land Sue was discovered. Nearly as compelling as this love triangle for Sue’s 65-million-year-old bones is the story of excavator Larson, who faced prison for violating outdated federal statutes and Sue Hendrickson, the modern Indiana Jones who discovered the incredible fossil. Using his journalist’s attention to detail and an accessible everyman voice, Fiffer keeps the reader engrossed by sprinkling personal information, historical perspective, and scientific tidbits into his narrative. Ê One tribute to the emotional strength of the story is the building sense of dread imposed, despite the inevitable conclusion. If you are unfamiliar with the vagaries of this case, you will, like me, wonder aloud whether Sue will even survive in one piece. Virtually anyone with an interest in dinosaurs, paleontology, conspiracy theories, courtroom dramas, or the struggle of a little guy against incredible odds should enjoy Tyrannosaurus Sue.

Sue will make her long-awaited debut in Chicago’s Field Museum this summer. See you there! Though only 26, Andrew Lis sometimes feels as old as dinosaur bones.

What do you think about big government? This hot-button question is just one of many permeating Tyrannosaurus Sue, the true story of the most impressive, most complete, and most litigated T. rex skeleton yet unearthed. But Tyrannosaurus Sue is about much more than big government…
Children's & YA

Review

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Have you danced with your little ones lately? Or learned a new song to sing with them? Even if you have, I recommend No Mirrors in My Nana’s House. The syncopated rhythm of the a cappella quintet Sweet Honey in the Rock makes it impossible to sit still as you listen to their lively rendition, and it lingers long after the performance is finished. You’ll find a CD of the song in the front of the book, which is actually the words to the song. Both book and song carry the message that love overcomes all obstacles. In this case a grandmother’s love is so sure and complete that it creates a world of beauty for a young child growing up in poverty and squalor.

Emphasizing the point of author and lead singer Ysaye Barnwell are the vibrant illustrations by Synthia Saint James. She has painted the characters without eyes as though they are blinded by love. You stamp collectors will be reminded of last year’s Kwanzaa stamp that James did for the post office.

The only problem is that after you’ve heard the music a time or two, you’ll be singing the book each time you pick it up. It’s a cappella, remember?

Have you danced with your little ones lately? Or learned a new song to sing with them? Even if you have, I recommend No Mirrors in My Nana's House. The syncopated rhythm of the a cappella quintet Sweet Honey in the Rock makes it impossible…

Children's & YA

Review

Review by bookpagedev

The authors and editors of the nine-volume The Oxford American Children’s Encyclopedia make some rather nice assumptions about their audience that they are curious and eager to learn. The approximately 2,000 entries, including those in a separate volume of nearly 500 biographies, are concise, focused, and written in language that is simple but not simplistic. Also included in this new set is a gazetteer, a world history timeline, and extensive cross-references. The strengths of the The Oxford American Children’s Encyclopedia include the one-page entries, photos and illustrations, and the concise delivery of information, not to mention the reasonable price.

Oxford University Press recently adapted their popular children’s set to an American audience, incorporating entries on all aspects of American history and geography. The only technical error spotted in this translation from British to American culture was a reference to the size of the ancient Anglo-Saxon ship, Sutton Hoo. It was stated to be over 24 m (79 in) long, rather than the correct 79 feet in length. The entry on burial mounds focuses on British sites, making a cursory mention of Native American burial mounds.

The authors do not limit language, but use definitions within a sentence as a way for children to expand their vocabulary and understand basic concepts. The entry on allegories, for example, defines this literary technique as a story or picture that can be enjoyed for itself but also has a deeper meaning ; the mathematics concept of averages is explained so even the most self-doubting mathematician can understand mean, median, and mode.

The Oxford American Children’s Encyclopedia is a child-friendly reference work, perfect for the traditional classroom, home-schooled learners, and independent learners. Though reference materials are available on CD-ROM and online, there is no replacement for the experience of turning the pages of a well-written and well-designed reference book.

Kathy Bennett is a high-school librarian in Nashville, Tennessee.

The authors and editors of the nine-volume The Oxford American Children's Encyclopedia make some rather nice assumptions about their audience that they are curious and eager to learn. The approximately 2,000 entries, including those in a separate volume of nearly 500 biographies, are concise, focused,…

Review

Review by bookpagedev

What do you think about big government? This hot-button question is just one of many permeating Tyrannosaurus Sue, the true story of the most impressive, most complete, and most litigated T. rex skeleton yet unearthed. But Tyrannosaurus Sue is about much more than big government and lawyers in fact, it’s mainly about the impact on a scientific and societal level of a very big dinosaur. After being unearthed on a Sioux Indian reservation by dinosaur-hunter Peter Larson, Sue became a mini-sensation as one of the most important finds in paleontological history. However, Larson wasn’t digging on private land as he thought, and his history of naive handshake agreements would soon be put to the test. With frightening quickness, Sue was confiscated by the FBI and stowed for nearly 10 years while the courts unraveled conflicting claims of ownership by Larson, the Sioux Indian tribe, the U.

S. government, and the Sioux rancher on whose land Sue was discovered. Nearly as compelling as this love triangle for Sue’s 65-million-year-old bones is the story of excavator Larson, who faced prison for violating outdated federal statutes and Sue Hendrickson, the modern Indiana Jones who discovered the incredible fossil. Using his journalist’s attention to detail and an accessible everyman voice, Fiffer keeps the reader engrossed by sprinkling personal information, historical perspective, and scientific tidbits into his narrative. Ê One tribute to the emotional strength of the story is the building sense of dread imposed, despite the inevitable conclusion. If you are unfamiliar with the vagaries of this case, you will, like me, wonder aloud whether Sue will even survive in one piece. Virtually anyone with an interest in dinosaurs, paleontology, conspiracy theories, courtroom dramas, or the struggle of a little guy against incredible odds should enjoy Tyrannosaurus Sue.

Sue will make her long-awaited debut in Chicago’s Field Museum this summer. See you there! Though only 26, Andrew Lis sometimes feels as old as dinosaur bones.

What do you think about big government? This hot-button question is just one of many permeating Tyrannosaurus Sue, the true story of the most impressive, most complete, and most litigated T. rex skeleton yet unearthed. But Tyrannosaurus Sue is about much more than big government…

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