Karen Romano Young

Whale Quest

Working Together to Save Endangered Species

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introduces whales, discussing their physical features, behavior, and complex communication abilities, along with a history of whaling and a description of the efforts being made by scientists around the world to save them from extinction. --Publisher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lerner Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 174mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781728459806
• ISBN-10: 172845980X
• Artikelnr.: 68761338

Autorenporträt

Karen Romano Young has dived to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in a tiny submarine, crunched through Arctic ice in an icebreaker, and visited labs, museum workshops, and research institutions across the U.S. to write and draw about science. She was a lead science communications fellow aboard Dr. Robert Ballard's research ship E/V Nautilus. Karen has written and/or illustrated more than 30 books for children and is the creator of Humanimal Doodles, a science comic. Her nonfiction books include Try This! and Try This Extreme! (National Geographic). Her fiction work includes The Beetle and Me: A Love Story; the graphic novel Doodlebug: a Novel in Doodles; and Hundred Percent. Her next book for Twenty-First Century Books is Whale Quest. Karen lives with her family in the woods of Bethel, Connecticut. Her next adventure is a stint at Palmer Station, Antarctica, as the recipient of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Grant. She has not yet traveled to space.