Author: Alicia Potter
Illustrator: Melissa Sweet
Copyright: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-375-84448-5
Adopt-a-Book Price: $9.46
One of the best ways to get children interested in new topics is through introducing them as picture books. Picture Books are a fun non threatening way to teach children about math, science, and even people's lives. Mrs. Harkness and the Panda is a sweet true story about how the first panda was brought to the United States, not by a man but a woman in 1936.
Mrs. Harkness had read about pandas, but in the 1900's no one in the United States had ever seen a panda before. Panda's lived too far away in China and no one had ever tried to capture one and bring it home before. Well, Mrs. Harkness may have been a bit eccentric, but she wanted a panda and knew just the explorer to bring her one, her husband. In 1934 William Harvest Harkness Jr. left the united states to head to China and find a Panda. Unfortunately, William died while in China.
When news of Williams death got back to her Mrs. Harkness would not be deterred, she still wanted a Panda. Mrs. Harkness refused to listen to her friends and neighbors when they told her that a woman could never be an explorer. She took a steam ship to China, got her husbands clothes tailored to fit her and then hired a team of guides and porters to help her. Off she went into the Chinese Mountains and...
Cliffhanger! To find out what happens in the mountains or if Mrs. Harkness ever finds her Panda come to the library and adopt this book. I can guarantee that you won't be disappointed be the writing or artwork. Melissa Sweet did an amazing job with the layout and design of each page.
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