Jean Craighead George
Who Really Killed Cock Robin?: An Ecological Mystery
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Chemistry & Materials
- Maker / Problem-Solving
- Story / Adventure
- Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
Cock Robin's death sends Tony through a web of ants, missing frog calls, contaminated river water, and fumes from the town dump. The detective plot requires him to connect chemical and biological clues across the ecosystem before he can identify a cause.
The science inside
- Ecosystems
- Scientific Discovery & Careers
- Conservation
- Materials
Your child will meet:
- A sudden change in one species can be an indicator of a broader environmental disturbance.
- Pollutants can move through air, water, soil, and food relationships rather than remaining at their source.
- Several unusual observations may share one cause, have separate causes, or interact in a causal chain.
- A strong environmental explanation must fit multiple independent clues and survive attempts to disprove it.
Use it this way
Parent effort: Simple activity
Cock Robin's death can't be ignored by the town of Saddleboro, because it means that something is drastically wrong with the town's ecology. Tony Isidoro threads his way through a maze of clues: Among other things, the town park is overrun with trillions of ants; nights are quiet because there are no frogs singing; the nearby river contains a dangerous amount of an unknown chemical; and the town dump is emitting strange fumes. What does it all add up to? It's a mystery all right, and it's up to Tony to figure out who really killed Cock Robin.
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