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Reviews & Accolades
Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Books for Youth 2008
Booklist Top 10 Books on the Environment for Youth 2008
Wilde Award Winner - Best Nonfiction
Junior Library Guild Selection
★"With clearly written text, detailed and well-produced photographs and helpful maps and charts...should be welcome in high-school as well as middle-school libraries."
—Kirkus ★starred review
★“Top-notch nonfiction...A captivating telescopic view of a unique animal.”
—Booklist ★starred review
"Carson provides fascinating detail...color photographs featuring Roth at work are upstaged only by those of the rhinos themselves..."
—Horn Book
The text is ful of important details, and the photographs are unfailingly crisp, bright, and full of variety."
—School Library Journal
"Pair this with other animal titles...and make sure kids get a chance to view Emi real-time on the zoo's webcam." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books