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ISBN
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books, LLC
ISBN-10
1592703496
ISBN-13
9781592703494
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20050386975

Product Key Features

Book Title
Snail with the Right Heart : a True Story
Number of Pages
56 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Marine Life, Nature & The Natural World / General (See Also Headings under Animals), Animals / General, Curiosities & Wonders, Science & Nature / Biology
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes, Zhu, Ping
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
Author
Maria Popova
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
11.4 in
Item Width
11.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Juvenile Audience
LCCN
2022-300244
Reviews
"A poetic introduction to evolution, mutation, and the necessary reproduction to achieve both along the way. Author Popova takes readers on a journey through time, beginning with the emergence of single-celled organisms and ending on another one-in-a-million chance: a potential future snail with a particular, rare recessive gene. Gentle, lyrical text briefly outlines the evolution of modern life on Earth before introducing Jeremy, a common garden snail with a rare left-spiraling shell, found by chance by a human scientist who had recently listened to a snail researcher on the radio....Zhu's soft, opaque illustrations of life on Earth, prehistoric and modern, micro and macro, are sure to enchant readers of all ages. The oversized trim allows her to play up the snail's tininess in long perspectives, and close-ups are luscious; both enhance the narration's sense of playful awe. A story as charmingly mesmerizing as a silvery snail's trail on a summer morning." --STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus, "The Snail With the Right Heart," written by Maria Popova and illustrated by Ping Zhu, tells the extraordinary true story of Jeremy, the lefty snail. Snails with left-spiraling shells are a one-in-a-million rarity, and the search for a mate for Jeremy became a British media sensation. Popova's lyrical retelling and Ping Zhu's simple, charming artwork add so much to an already marvelous story, introducing readers to the genetic significance of Jeremy's rare mutation and to the concept of deep time (and how life exists within it)." -- The New York Times, "In a paean to the value of individual differences that is presented on a cosmic scale, Brain Pickings founder Popova (Figuring, for adults) relates the real-life story of Jeremy, a rare garden snail found in 2015 by a retired London scientist, whose shell spiraled to the left, signifying reversed internal anatomy--including a heart positioned on the right. Because of this, Jeremy, a hermaphrodite like all garden snails, required a similarly rare mate to procreate. Against a backdrop of biology, history, and genetics, Popova calls attention to differences of ability and the problem of the gender binary. In doing so, she elegantly underscores the desirability of genetic and other kinds of diversity, which is "always lovelier than sameness" and makes communities "stronger and better able to adapt to change." Ping Zhu's (The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor) art, however, turns a book about a humble snail into a riot of vibrant color, making for a celebration of the "strange and lovely little snail with a left-coiling shell and a right heart" that is shot through with a strange loveliness of its very own." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Second Grade
Dewey Decimal
594.3
Grade To
Seventh Grade
Edition Description
Illustrated edition
Synopsis
Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence... A Kirkus Best Book of 2021: A Best Informational Picture Book A Spirituality & Practice Best Spiritual Book of 2021 The Snail with the Right Heart is a story about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity--concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, often more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable in the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile of compost amid an English garden. Emerging from this singular life is a lyrical universal invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as the wellspring of the universe's beauty and resilience. This boldly illustrated book about evolution for children features a large gatefold that opens up to immerse readers in the story and will help kids understand that nature is all about differentiation and that being different is beautiful., A Kirkus Best Book of 2021: A Best Informational Picture Book A Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings ) Best Children's Book of 2021 A Spirituality & Practice Best Spiritual Book of 2021 Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence... The Snail with the Right Heart is a story about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity--concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, often more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable in the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile of compost amid an English garden. Emerging from this singular life is a lyrical universal invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as the wellspring of the universe's beauty and resilience. This boldly illustrated book about evolution for children features a large gatefold that opens up to immerse readers in the story and will help kids understand that nature is all about differentiation and that being different is beautiful., Age range 6 to 12 Celebrating science and the poetry of existence, a true story about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death. Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence; about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity -- concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, often more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable in the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile of compost amid an English garden. Emerging from this singular life is a lyrical universal invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as the wellspring of the universe's beauty and resilience.
LC Classification Number
QL430.4.P66 2021

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