Roy A(rthur) Gallant

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Books About Science for the Younger Reader: An Annual Christmas Survey

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If the skull under the skin is not too fearful to examine for its beauty and meaning, this cleverly made book of brief text [Me and My Bones] … charts a high road to comparative anatomy and evolution. Engaging Cirsten Carle acts as the living counterpart of a child's skeleton in many close-ups and set positions. Other bones come on the scene, from cat and chimpanzee, horse and elephant…. Gallant goes pretty far toward cuteness in maintaining the lightheartedness such a memento mori seems to need. Apart from a few excesses … he has made a book of value and delight for fifth-graders and up.

Philip and Phylis Morrison, "Books About Science for the Younger Reader: An Annual Christmas Survey," in Scientific American (copyright © 1972 by Scientific American, Inc.; all rights reserved), Vol. 227, No. 6, December, 1972, p. 112.∗

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