Lisa Deresti Betik

What Happened to our Starry, Starry Night? If you go outside on a moonless night, what do you see? A planet, maybe a handful of stars if you’re lucky. Unfortunately, for too many of us the city lights diminish the night sky. Streetlights and other artificial lights do more than illuminate our world. They create problems for plants and animals living in and around our cities, including seasonal migrators. Who Hid the Stars?

Columnists By Naseem Hrab I love buying children’s books for my niece and nephew. They all have such different personalities and interests and it’s so fun for me to find books I think they’ll enjoy. And I also love buying children’s books for my friends (the adult ones!). So, I asked some of my favourite children’s authors and illustrators for their favourite picks for the holiday season.

Cusick floats a slick, select gallery of nature’s spitters, nose-pickers, oozers, and slimers—most but not all nonhuman—atop nourishing globs of scientific information. Title notwithstanding, the book is limited just to mucus and saliva.