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Adreon Patterson adreonp — It was a long slog through this book. It wasn’t that the writing was poor or the material was not worthwhile. It was the dispiriting struggle after struggle to save endangered species that begged for breaks between chapters. But I kept coming back to learn about the plight of the red wolf, California condor, golden lion tamarin, black-footed ferret, whooping crane (you know, all the big names). There are surprising similarities: a wild population dwindles to a few individuals, spurring a desperate effort to save the species from extinction by making them captives. Challenges with trapping, breeding, raising, and ultimately release vary by species, but challenges are guaranteed. The most discouraging sections of this book were the human-human conflicts. Surprisingly, the ones emphasized here were not the traditional nature-lovers vs developers/farmers/hunters/loggers that threaten animals and their habitats (although this is a deep and gnarly divide). The combatants were scientists and conservationists who earnestly want to save a particular species, often divided by a thorny question: how should limited financial resources be allocated between managing the wild population and maintaining the captive population. Why release bred animals into the wild while mortality rates are still ridiculously high? But why build up captive stock when remaining suitable habitat shrinks away so there may be nowhere to release them in the future? Ow. Some of these programs seem ultimately futile, but so much effort has been invested it seems impossible to walk away and call it all a waste. The simplest lesson I took away is: Animals do a BETTER (and CHEAPTER) job taking care of themselves than we can, but we HAVE to provide them with HABITAT and other conditions that will enable them to do so. We need to jolt ourselves out of waiting for an eleventh-hour rescue, because by then it’s a nearly insurmountable task.

Sudhir Halankar _udhirh — David Shannon's "David Goes to School" is a humorous tale about a day in the life of a mischievous child, David, which is actually based on the childhood of the author. Each full-bleed illustration depicts David breaking the rules and the text depicts the teacher's response to David's misbehavior. The types of misbehavior David gets into at school are things all children have done or seen their classmates do. One of the most interesting aspects of David Shannon's picture books is that he never shows an adults face. Children are sure to love this book and its very funny images.

Arber Cungu arcungu5baa — My favorite when I was a kid

Silvia Tueros-cossio silviatc — A lot of things in this book didn't really make sense to me (maybe it's because I didn't read it closely enough), such as why Spike AND Mr. Darcy show interest in the main character. I found her somewhat snobby, and I'm still confused as to whether Darcy was a hallucination, a dream, a real man, etc. All in all this book is a modern day re-telling of Jane Austen's book. If you're planning on reading this, you might as well just read the original.

Britta Page-curley brittacurley — I didn't read this because it was an Oprah book! Ok, maybe i did.