From: The Horn Book Magazine | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: Bush, Margaret A. | Copyright information

Margaret J. Anderson; illus. by Marie Le Glatin Keis 100 pp. Foster/Farrar 4/97 ISBN 0-374-31243-5 14.00 (Intermediate)

Jean Henri Fabre's endless fascination with insects caused the neighbors to think him odd. Yet a hundred years later he is still highly regarded for his science and his writing, and here we see that he was a fine father, too. Margaret Anderson has selected family episodes from Fabre's own writing and recounted them in the voice of ten-year-old Paul, a child...