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