Yours 'Til Niagara Falls

by Brenda Z. Guiberson, William Low (Illustrator)

Overview

A thrilling, fact-filled history of Niagara Falls, following its evolution from the age of dinosaurs to its future disintegration.

Millions of years ago, Niagara Falls was not a waterfall. Back then, ocean covered the land.

Eighteen thousand years ago, all that water was locked up in ice.

Then 12,500 years ago, the ice melted! It gushed into lakes that flowed into a river that plunged over a steep cliff. Crash! Roar! Sploosh!

That was the noisy beginning of one of the world’s most majestic waterfalls. Experience the incredible history of this misty, mystical cascade of water in Yours 'Til Niagara Falls, told from the perspective of Niagara Falls itself.

Godwin Books

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250890566
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	44
File size:	150 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Brenda Z. Guiberson is the author of many books for children, including When I Was a Turkey, The Deadliest Creature in the World, Frog Song, Life in the Boreal Forest, Moon Bear, The Emperor Lays an Egg, and the bestselling Cactus Hotel. She also wrote Feathered Dinosaurs, illustrated by William Low. She lives near Seattle, Washington.

William Low is the author and illustrator of Daytime Nighttime, Machines Go to Work, and the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Old Penn Station. He has illustrated numerous other books for children, including Feathered Dinosaurs, written by Brenda Z. Guiberson. He teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Brenda Z. Guiberson has written many books for children, including Cactus Hotel, Spoonbill Swamp, Moon Bear and Disasters. As a child, Brenda never thought she wanted to be a writer—her dreams tended more toward jungle explorer. She graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in English and Fine Art. She started thinking about writing for children when her son went to elementary school, and she volunteered in his class and in the school library. After taking exciting trips that involved a fifty-foot cactus, hungry alligators and sunset-colored spoonbills, she wanted to create books for children that would be like a field trip. Her books are full of well-researched detail, and Brenda sees this research as an adventure—one that allows her to be a jungle explorer at last. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
William Low is the author and illustrator of Daytime Nighttime, Machines Go to Work, and the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Old Penn Station, as well as a four-time Silver Medal winner at the Society of Illustrators. He teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

07/18/2022

Niagara Falls itself serves as the narrator of this lengthy anthropologic and geologic history of the celebrated cataract. The falls’ first-person account takes readers from its ocean beginnings millions of years ago to its present-day status as a world-famous tourist attraction. Depicted by Guiberson as both observer and participant, Niagara “cascaded, rumbled, roared, and tumbled,” “was a waterfall on the Underground Railroad,” and “became a waterfall of holidays and carnivals.” Low’s painterly aerial and close-up views convey the mist-shrouded landmark’s grandeur, as archival photo renderings, b&w artifact sketches, and images of the cliffs’ erosion over time overlay sweeping scenes. Unspecified “humans with stone tools,” an explorer, daredevils, freedom-seeking enslaved people, industrialists, and tourists are all portrayed in the extensive chronology. Though lines about modern-day visitors who “sense the Stone Age maiden and Hinu, the Great Thunderer” and “gulp the fresh air of enslaved people seeking freedom” strike an unfortunately romanticizing note, the volume offers a wealth of facts about the natural wonder via an expansive scrapbook feel. A bibliography concludes. Ages 4–8. (June)

Publishers Weekly