Montgomery, S. (2012). Temple Grandin: how the girl who loved cows embraced autism and changed the world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.BiographyNorman A. Sugarman Children's Biography Award Winner 2012It was clear from the time she was a baby that Temple G...
Montgomery, Sy. (2010). Kakapo Rescue. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children: New York, NY.Junior Book Log: Sibert AwardThe Kakapo parrot is the largest parrot on earth, and it is nearly extinct. Weighing in at nine pounds on average, these birds don't fly. They're friendly and curious by nature. T...
I had read Montgomery's book on the tigers of the Sunderbans years ago(one remark I still remember is how she suddenly realized that she herself was "meat") and thought it was wonderful. With this one I have a much greater appreciation for chickens but I still don't understand the purpose of fal...
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Essentially it's a story about the writer's life in rural New Hampshire with a pet pig names Christopher Hogwood. I have to admit that most of the time small town life stories do not hold my interest. But this was a story about a pig and I have a ...