Animals Robert Scott Saw: An Adventure in Antarctica [Hardcover]

Sandra Markle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 26, 2008 | Grade Level: 2 and up

In this new series by award-winning author Sandra Markle, famous explorers take a back seat to the animals they encountered along the way. While Robert Scott and his crew weren't the first to reach the South Pole, they were the first to see an emperor penguin breeding ground. Through nimble writing and beautiful paintings, this series casts the past in a whole new light!

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Well illustrated with acrylic paintings and archival photos, this volume from the Explorers series traces the two Antarctic expeditions of English explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who reached the South Pole with his companions in 1912, 35 days after Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition. The story may be Scott’s, but the focus continually turns to animals: his pet Aberdeen terrier, sightings of penguins and petrels, the collection of marine-animal specimens by the team’s biologist, the special snowshoes worn by the expedition’s Manchurian ponies, the brave rescue of a dog team in peril, and even the use of reindeer hide in pajamas and sleeping bags. A glossary and annotated lists of books and Internet sites are appended. Students researching polar animals or Scott will probably want to consult other resources first, though this handsome book provides intriguing sidelights on both topics. Children fascinated by both explorers and animals are the natural audience for this unusual series, which will be an asset to larger collections. Grades 4-7. --Carolyn Phelan

About the Author

Sandra Markle is a former elementary school science teacher, a nationally known science education consultant, and the author of many award-wining books for children. Animals Robert Scott Saw was inspired by her own experiences in Antarctica.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (March 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081184918X
• ISBN-13: 978-0811849180
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,262,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

SANDRA MARKLE

Sandra Markle is the author of more than 200 books for children, such as A Mother's Journey (Charlesbridge, 2006), How Many Baby Pandas (Walker, 2009), The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs (Millbrook, 2011), Butterfly Tree (Peachtree Publishing, 2011). She has won numerous awards for this work, including Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices, NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, SB& F finalist, John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers, Junior Library Guild Selection, Orbis Pictus Recommended Book, Charlotte Zolotow Award, and MORE.
She was honoured with the title of "Best of Children's Non-Fiction" Georgia Author Of The Year award five times and was named one of 1999's Women of the Year by Women in Technology International for her contributions to science and technology.

In addition to her books, Sandra Markle has developed science specials for CNN and PBS. She is also noted for developing On-Line Expedition: Antarctica, one of the first on-line educational programs and continued adding further on-line reports from Antarctica while working on book projects in 1996 and 1999 as a grantee for the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program.

Reviewers have heaped praise on Markle's books, including:
Outside and Inside Bats "The author presents a particularly felicitous accord of words and pictures in an outstanding science book for the primary grades." The Horn Book Magazine
Outside and Inside Alligators "This newest installment of the Outside and Inside series adds another fine book to a top-notch series." Bookselling This Week, a Kid's Pick of the Lists
Outside and Inside Dinosaurs It's like sitting down with a dinosaur expert who happens to be a great teacher." The Horn Book Magazine

Sandra Markle remains proudest, though, of the praise she has received in fan mail from children. She's happy to fulfill the requests of the young readers that urge her to "please write more."