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Articles by Patrick Makin
Die Anden - Natur am Limit
Beschreibung Geboren aus vulkanischer Hitze ziehen sich die Anden über 7000 Kilometer vom Äquator bis nach Patagonien. Die Nordanden zeichnet ein Gegensatz von Eiseskälte und Tropenschwüle aus. Am Äquator ragen einige Gipfel über 6000 Meter empor - dort kommt jedes Leben ans Limit. Doch auch in diese kargen Höhen gibt es Überlebenskünstler: Vikunjas, Kleinkamele der Anden, sind sehr genügsam und kommen mit dem wenigen Nahrungsangebot aus.
DREAM ON | Kirkus Reviews
A KID'S GUIDE TO INTERPRETING DREAMS by Cerridwen Greenleaf ; illustrated by Khoa Le ‧ The author of The Practical Witch’s Spell Book (2018) advises young readers on how to understand their dreams.
UNSTOPPABLE US, VOLUME 1
From the author of the adult title Sapiens (2015), an explanation of how physically weak humans came to dominate other animals. Spoiler alert: It was through human inventiveness and storytelling. Harari’s lively, reader-directed prose and Ruiz’s expressive graphics will help young readers grasp an almost-unimaginably distant past, from the start of toolmaking up to (in this volume) Homo sapiens’ collaborative extinction of mammoths.
ABSURD WORDS | Kirkus Reviews
by Patrick Makin ; illustrated by Whooli Chen ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 18, 2021 Take a magic-carpet ride to far-flung and seldom-seen locations. Readers can follow a young, pale-skinned, khaki-clad adventurer as they set out on their magic carpet to explore unusual, unexpected, and sometimes dangerous spots around the world.
3 adventure-filled illustrated books for children and adults, too Original
Summer is winding down and the kids are heading back to school, but there are still plenty of reasons to want to get away from, well, everything right now. The most convenient journey, however, might be into the pages of a richly illustrated book. We gathered up three intrepid titles for children and those (cough) a little older to point the way to adventures still to be had this season. “Exploring Gotham City: An Illustrated Guide” by Matthew K.
THE ADVENTUROUS KID’S GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S MOST MYSTERIOUS PLACES
THE SCIENCE AND STORIES OF OUR MOON by David Aguilar ; illustrated by David Aguilar ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 11, 2019 A picture of our nearest cosmic neighbor, from violent origins to likely demise. Aguilar, a veteran science writer and illustrator, opens with a recap of (theorized) stages in the moon’s evolution over the past 4.5 billion years.
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