By imagining animals in everyday scenarios readers can learn about their size

but all his attempts turn into disasters

an abandoned mansion high atop a windswept cliff in the Hudson River Valley

and fascinating history

Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town Men By imagining animals in everydayThe diamond neighborhood was an all black enclave in the mostly white town of Norco, Louisiana, aptly named for the New Orleans refining co., an industrial processing plant. Margie Eugene Richard was raised in the shadow of a giant chemical plant operated by shell, and witnessed her neighbors fall ill amid the toxic waste the plant emitted year after year. Her own sister, Naomi, eventually succumbed to a rare lung disease linked to environmental