Book description
A Kirkus Best Book of 2021: A Best Informational Picture Book
A Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) Best Children's Book of 2021
A Spirituality & Practice Best Spiritual Book of 2021
Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Snail with the Right Heart as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book about a tiny creature different from the rest touched my heart in a big way.
Like the scientist whose discovery inspired this book, I pay attention to small things. What small thing did the scientist notice? A snail shell that spiraled the opposite way of most snails–left instead of right. This one-in-a-million snail had inverted organs–his heart and other organs were on the right side, and he couldn’t reproduce without a mate who also had inverted organs.
Through crowdsourcing, two snails with right hearts were found–and eventually, baby snails were born!
Genetics, diversity, evolution, and love all fit…
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Unfathomable
Did you know you can survive being swallowed by a whale? Or that octopus wrestling used to be an actual sport? Or, that once a town in Oregon didn't know what to do with a whale carcass that washed up on their beaches, so they...BLEW IT UP?
As strange as…
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