Multicultural

Title: The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Illustrator: Kevin Hawkes
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 1994
Genre: Multicultural/ nonfiction
Age Range: Upper elementary
Summary: This book is about a man named Eratosthenese. Throughout his life he was fascinated with geography and wanted to know why the earth was the way that it was. He learned about the "gymnasium" in Greece. Ptolemy later asked him to be the tutor of the museum in Greece. He would teach other children about the things he learned about and would also teach himself new things as well. He then became interested in knowing the circumference of the Earth. He used the sun to help him with his angle problem of where to begin to measure. He wrote a book called Geographica that was the first book on the geography of the earth.
Personal Response: I think that this book would be very informational to children in an elementary school. They, too, at that age would ask many questions and want to know "why" to many things in life. This could teach them what Eratosthenes went through to answer his own question.