Power of One Woman Blog, 3/29/11
“Through her newest book…Sandra has once again provided us, through well-documented case studies, the opportunity to examine our lifestyles choices and our surrounding environments…Sandra and her stories are gifts: golden information for busy parents who do not have the time for months of research.”
Publishers Weekly, 4/4/11
“A persuasive, personal call to action.”
Internet Review of Books, 3/25/11
“Terrifying and empowering…[Steingraber] skillfully weaves common domestic duties and scenes into and around the complex science, economic, and societal factors that have contributed to our current environmental crisis (and if you have any doubt that it is a crisis, you really need to read this book)…Knowledge is power. Raising Elijah is an excellent starting point for parents who want to know so they can protect their children from the dangers around them.”
New York Journal of Books, 4/15/11
“One part memoir and one part educational treatise, and thoroughly informative and entertaining…Steingraber has taken a work that could have been a dry and didactic expository and turned it into a fluid, intimate narrative—sometimes funny, always entertaining and definitely illuminating. It’s a book that everyone—parents and otherwise—should avail themselves of for the good of those they care about.”
Ms., Spring 2011
“Steingraber’s narrative is personal and political, funny and smart. She shows us that feminism and motherhood are not at odds; combined, they make for heroes…Raising Elijah is a call to arms, a cry for the moral solidarity that we must forge to prevent environmental degradation and its assault on children’s health.”
St. Petersburg Times, 4/17/11
“A biologist's memoir of protecting her family from a wide range of environmental hazards—and learning to make the best and cheapest organic pizza.”
SEHN Networker, April 2011
“Read this for the kids in your life…This is a very funny book on hair-raisingly serious topics.”
InfoDad.com, 4/28/11
“Steingraber’s narrative structure for this book is attractive: an ecologist, she looks at the ‘ecology’ of her own family as she discusses both home-centered and public-policy issues.”
Hudson Valley News, 4/20/11
“[A] fine book.”
Organic Valley blog, 5/11/11
“[Steingraber] has a rare knack for making dry research data come to life.”
Library Journal, 6/3/11
“[A] compelling and graceful call to arms…Steingraber combines the best of humorous science writers like Mary Roach with the soaring beauty of writers like Terry Tempest Williams. Fans of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed should flock to Elijah.”
Fit Pregnancy, June/July 2011
“[Steingraber’s] tales keep readers engaged while illustrating the relationship between our nation’s chemical regulation (or lack thereof} and our kids’ current and future health.”
Reference and Research Book News, June 2011
“A conversational memoir about the environmental threats our children face.”
Alternatives Journal, June 2011
“[Steingraber is] arguably the best environment and human-health writer of our age…Like [Rachel] Carson, Steingraber is sounding alarms about chemical pollutants in the best way she knows: through her formidable talents as a writer, storyteller and explainer of things scientific.”
EuphoriaBaby.com, 7/6/11
“An interesting and worthwhile read…A book that shares serious, often disturbing information can at the same time be so personal and empowering…If you want to be an informed parent this book is something you won’t want to miss.”
The Ecologist (UK), 7/7/11
“Combining hard science with a sympathetic approach to the realities of family life; Raising Elijah is one of the most important books you’ll ever read…Meticulously researched…A genuine, all-encompassing environmental study…Raising Elijah is that rare beast that combines hard data and approachable intimacy. At heart, it is an inspirational personal journey, a tale of activism at family level. It is perhaps the most essential book a parent can read this year.”
Spirituality & Practice (website)
“With great bravado and a firm grasp of ecology and biology, Steingraber runs down all the challenges she and her two children, Elijah and Faith, face in the toxic environment of upstate New York over a six-year period.”
BookPage, August 2011
“Read this book…Steingraber’s lyrical descriptions of everyday family life and its connections to ‘urgent public health issues’ are astonishing.”
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, Fall 2011
“Steingraber speaks here as a warrior, a parent determined to protect her children—and all children—from the polluted and climate-challenged world they have inherited.”
KeepTapWaterSafe.org, 9/13/11
“It might be the most important parenting book you’ll ever read….Detailed and sobering…The facts are compelling unto themselves, yet her fluid prose is animated with personal anecdotes—all the better to elucidate the connection between corporate poisoning of the biosphere and our burgeoning public health crises.
Raising Elijah also raises hope.”
Metapsychology Online Reviews, 9/13/11
“A fascinating and moving story about a parent's struggle to protect her child's health and wellbeing while still planning for his future in a world full of environmental dangers…Steingraber writes in a witty, poetic fashion, easily drawing connections between the environmental crisis and children's health…The book is one of the most fascinating and well-written pieces concerning the environmental crisis that I have read.”
Metropolis, 9/20/11
“As a writer, Sandra Steingraber has the eloquence and urgency of Rachel Carson. As a biologist, she has a fiercely acute perspective on how human health is affected by the many outputs of so many clever human inventions…In 10 elegantly framed chapters, Steingraber gives both a personal account of a family attempting to live a healthy life in upstate New York and a scientist’s look at the issues that make that so very challenging. The combination is powerful.”
The Weekly Harvest, 7/29/11
“Through a combination of scientific evidence and anecdotes plucked from her family life, she demonstrates again and again how, as individuals, our efforts to safeguard our homes so that our exposure is limited are not enough.”
Valley Advocate, 10/6/11
“Raising Elijah does many things, and does them well. It’s a book about science that makes the topic accessible without leaving the reader feeling as if she’s being spoken down to. That’s thanks, in no small part, to Steingraber’s gift as a writer.”
Herizons, Fall 2011
“Steingraber combines compelling statistical evidence with beautiful writing to create an inspiring read…If you despair at the state of the planet and wonder how you can understand complex environmental problems, including climate change, while taking actions against them, this book is for you.”
Story Circle Book Reviews, 12/13/11
“Part lyrical parenting memoir, part hard-hitting, meticulously researched advocacy,
Raising Elijah is not a light read. But if you care about the health of our children and the planet that nourishes all of us, it's darn near essential…This is a powerful and empowering book: take it slowly and let Steingraber's facts and passion for a healthy world seep in and become part of your understanding; let them guide your daily choices in life…Steingraber uses memoir to introduce facts, and does it so effectively that the reader is sucked right in…A compelling and surprisingly hopeful work—one that will stick with you long after you've turned the final page.”
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