Listening to Crickets: A Story about Rachel Carson

by Candice Ransom

Book Overview

From the time she was a very young girl, Rachel Carson felt a bond with nature. Growing up in Pennsylvania, she spent hours exploring meadows and woods, dreaming of seeing the ocean. As Rachel grew older, she combined her gift for writing with her love of nature, producing award-winning books about the sea. But her best-known achievement was the publication of Silent Spring, an account of the dangerous effects of pesticides on plants and animals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876146159
• ISBN13: 9780876146156
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Lerner Classroom
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9

Customer Reviews

Inspiration for young readers

A biography of scientist/author Rachel Carson for the intermediate grades or so, it is well done; an accessible, easy-to-relate-to telling of a bright, good woman's life that led to the publishing of her controversial Silent Spring, a book which in many ways pioneered modern ecological awareness on a large scale. Carson's history of science and writing interest from her youngest days provides good inspiration for youngsters to do well, never knowing what good future endeavors their interests and skills may lead to. My group of solid reading fifth graders enjoyed it, and more than one child, several girls most notably, expressed the desire to combine writing and science in ways like Carson did. Valuable and recommended.