Over and Under the Rainforest meets This Is How We Do It in A River of Dust—a celebration of global interconnectedness with an environmental lens, at a time when we need it most. It is science with a beating heart.
I am dust, the dust of North Africa. I connect continents.
The dust of the Sahel—a ribbon of land between the Sahara and the savannah—lifts with the harmattan wind each winter season. But this is not just any dust. The Sahel's dust will mix with dust from the Sahara and travel thousands of miles westward, across the African continent and the Atlantic Ocean, to reunite with its unforgotten home deep in the Amazon basin.
Told from the perspective of dust, A River of Dust takes readers on a journey through vibrantly illustrated landscapes, celebrating the power and wonder of Earth's ecosystems, and showing how these tiny particles are key to the health of our planet. It is a lyrical ode to global connection and to the vital roles that even the smallest among us can play.
GLOBAL CONNECTION: Just like This Is How We Do It, this book shows how we are all interdependent on this tiny blue marble hurtling through space.
SMALL PARTICLES, MIGHTY IMPACT: This powerful story of the Sahel's very necessary contribution to the world demonstrates how one of the driest places on earth nourishes one of the wettest. And if dust has such a far-reaching effect, readers can imagine how important their own impact could be on the world around them.---from the publisher
48 pages 978-1797211756 Ages 7-10
Keywords: environmental science, ecosystems, Africa, Amazon, Earth Science, science, Science Curriculum, 7 year old, 8 year old, 9 year old, 10 year old
