Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave
Two rock formations grow toward each other across geological time. It is a love story and an honest account of cave formation, and the romance takes a hundred thousand years.
Beckmeyer draws a courtship conducted at the speed of dripping water, in which the participants cannot move and barely change within a human lifetime. The science is accurate, the patience is the joke, and the book quietly teaches how caves actually form while telling children a story about waiting a hundred thousand years for someone.
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Maria Popova
This elemental tendency comes to life with great levity and charm in Drew Beckmeyer’s picture-book Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (public library). The tale is big because its theme is the largest of feelings, but also because tucked into the love story is the evolutionary history of how our rocky planet became a living world
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