![]() ![]() Well worth a read just to see how Deborah gets the balance just right.Īlso I’m going to tag this as a diverse book in terms of class. It’s a fine line to walk and I think it’s handled beautifully. However, and this is the important distinction to me, it doesn’t revel in death or glamorize suffering. Something for the writer to think about:Īny story about an epidemic is going to be tragic and this one doesn’t shrink from death. ![]() In finding and answer to the riddle of the Broad Street pump, Eel finds a home and protection and education for his beloved little brother. ![]() The narrator, a kid who goes by the name Eel, is appealing and keeps the events on a very human scale. Cool historical maps of the epidemic are in the back matter. It’s full of real nitty gritty details of how to prove that disease is water-borne when the water tastes fine and the air stinks. Three things for a kid reader to love:ġ. Any kid who lives Bones or CSI or other tv crime scene procedurals will love this. ![]() Snow and a couple of street urchins proved that a cholera epidemic that a broke out in Victorian London was caused not by the heavily polluted air but by the contaminated water in the Broad Street pump. It’s an account of how the enterprising Dr. This is a story after my heart because epidemiology was my mother’s field. I’m going to try to read all the books that are on the 2015-16 OBOB list with me and I’m so happy to start with a wonderful book by my friend and fellow Portlander, Deborah Hopkinson. ![]()
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