Praise for Extinctopedia

An NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book
National Science Teachers Association

This gorgeously illustrated book dives into many species that are extinct, were declared extinct but rediscovered, and are endangered. . . Biodiversity is thoroughly explained and beautifully depicted throughout, and while this book gets into the reasons why animals have gone extinct, it also offers ways that society can work to preserve endangered species . . . VERDICT An excellent purchase for elementary and middle school nonfiction collections in need of more animal conservation and preservation books to complement life sciences curriculum and student interest.
School Library Journal

An elegant . . . gallery of rarities. . . A wide-angled survey of threatened and recently extinct animals worldwide. . . Along with crafting arrays of expertly depicted, naturally posed wildlife portraits in monochrome and pale colors, Alcini tucks in several fanciful or trenchant vignettes . . . as an unusually broad cross-section of species that are going or gone, as well as a graphic demonstration of the beauty and diversity of what we lose when they die out, this will leave a marked impression on young audiences.
Kirkus Reviews

. . . superbly illustrated informational picture book . . . The clarity and precisions of Alicini's illustrations are reminiscent of Brian Selznick's work . . . This informative and visually engaging guide serves as a reminder to take care of our planet and its population lest we "lose small yet significant forms of diversity and beauty.
Shelf Awareness

About the Author

Serenella Quarello is a Spanish teacher, a translator and an author of novels and picture books, published in Italy and abroad. She organizes creative workshops for animated reading, creative writing, and literary translation. Alessio Alcini was born in Abruzzo, Italy in 1993. He studied graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila and illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. In 2020 his illustrations were selected for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition. Margaret Greenan is a translator and English as a foreign language teacher based in Italy. She has mostly translated books for young children and teens, for Italian and international publishing houses.

You May Also Like

View more