By Bryn Barnard http://www.brynbarnard.com/Site_2/Home.html
Crown Publishers New York, 2005
ISBN 0-375-92986-X
Acrylic paintings
Annotation
A history book witch connects to many Social Studies State Standards, but gives a different perspective of the times, pointing out how some outbreaks were for the better.
Personal Reaction
An appealing book by its cover art, a skeleton in a wooden table crouched over a microscope with magnified germs circling it. This could be a frightening book for anyone, especially during a time when a new flu virus is threatening an outbreak. However history is our best defense and this book gives fantastic details of historical outbreaks and reactions to them. Interesting recounts of historical outbreaks connected to their effect on history are bone chilling. The chapter, How Yellow Fever Stopped Slavery, is one example. The book points out to readers that human beings have lived on Africa for longer than another continent, therefore its occupants have had a longer time to develop immunity. Because the white slave traders had not been exposed to Yellow Fever, many died. New World and the Caribbean slave plantations were devastated for decades due to the Yellow Fever. The history behind hand washing and urban sanitation is fascinating and directly relates to students lives. This book will fascinate all ages, written in a simple factual academic style using facts to keep interest.
Social Studies
History
Disease, outbreak
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