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They Came from the Bronx
How the Buffalo Were Saved from Extinction
By Waldman, Neil
- ISBN
- 978-1-56397-891-3
- Publisher
- Boyds Mills Press
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2001
Gr 2-5 This picture-book slice of America's natural history defies classification. Waldman begins with a brief memoir about childhood visits to the Bronx Zoo and his curiosity about its "Mother Herd" of American bison. The heart of the book is a fictionalized recounting of the delivery of 15 of these animals from the zoo to the plains of Oklahoma in 1907. Double-page spreads alternate with the thoughts of a waiting Comanche boy and his grandmother and a description of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
