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Gr 2–4—A pleasant, picture book-style look at a rather icky topic: microbes, the teeny tiny critters that live on us and in us and everywhere around us, with an impact that belies their minute size. Davies's writing is straightforward but not dry; in fact, she puts the scale and numbers of microb...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Davies introduces a likely brand-new--and immediately intriguing--concept to young readers: that there are vast quantities of living things (microbes) that are smaller than the eye can see. She does it not with dull lists of Latin terms and classification charts but instead through creative, easy-to-relate-to analogies, and itchy-but-cool facts about the microbes that live on and in us ("Right now there are more microbes living on...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Davies introduces the concept of microbes to young readers through creative, relatable analogies and itchy-but-cool facts about the microbes...Log In or Sign Up to Read More