The Japanese Tsunami: When the Sea Pulls Back First
A tsunami is not a big wind wave. It is the whole depth of the ocean lifted at once, which is why it does not break and finish like every...
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The Grizzlies, 1967 in Panels: How to Read a Bear
There is a page in this book where a girl and a grizzly are in the same frame, and the thing the picture hands you that a sentence cannot is...
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The Shark Attacks of 1916: Everyone Was Wrong
The best thing in this book is not the shark. It is that in 1916 the people who were supposed to know said this could not happen, and they were...
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The Joplin Tornado: What a Warning Actually Buys You
The warning went out before the tornado arrived. More than a hundred and fifty people died anyway. Both halves of that sentence are worth a child understanding.
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Nobody in 1348 Knew What Was Killing Them
Every person in this book is wrong about what is killing them. Not foolish. Wrong in a specific, careful, understandable way, and that is the most interesting thing in it.
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Surprising Sharks: What the Word Shark Actually Covers
Ask a five year old to draw a shark and you will get the same animal every time. This book exists to prove that drawing is one species out of...
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