A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet author-Deborah Diesen At the Academy for Curious

At the Academy for Curious Squidges

– Stuart Gibbs

Her powerful abilities can only protect her so far

Here come the BIG RIGS rolling down the street

A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet author-Deborah Diesen At the Academy for CuriousFrom two award winning creators comes a picture book that reveals the hidden wonders of how Saharan Dust impacts the world: from slowing a hurricane to nourishing a rainforest. A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR This dust . . . of what lived once sustains what lives today and what will be born . . . tomorrow. An ancient catfish becomes a fossil, and as the lake where it lived dries up, the fossil turns to dust but this isn't ordinary dust.