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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
By Hoose, Phillip
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37436-173-0
- Publisher
- Kroupa Farrar
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2004
Gr 6-Up This meticulously researched labor of love uses drama, suspense, and mystery to tell the story of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the first modern endangered species. Its story is also the story of America, its economics and its politics, its settlement and its development, its plume hats and its environmental protection laws. In 1800, the large and impressive woodpecker lived in the southeastern United State...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2004
The regal Ivory-billed woodpecker, subject of one of Audubon's handsomest paintings, once ranged through primeval forests from Texas to North Carolina. Its inexorable march toward extinction began after the Civil War when, desperate for cash, landowners began selling the birds' habitat for timber. Demand for lumber surged after the Chicago Fire; then the Singer Manufacturing Company gobbled a particularly important forest to make their sewing m...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
