This is a fantastic graphic novel explaining biodiversity! This should be in classrooms all over and in libraries everywhere. Nice artwork with easy to read and understand explanations of a very complex concept. Would highly recommend this book!

I know iron oxide doesn't contain water (only iron and oxygen y'all) so I'm not sure how much of the rest of this comic is accurate. :/ And I don't have the time or wherewithal to Google it all. It's a fun, colorful, easy way to teach kids (and adults!) about biodiversity but it seems that Reeves does not know this field as well as he should and was there no fact-checker? "Hubert Reeves is a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science." Eep.

Allegedly a book about biodiversity, this non-fiction comic starts off by telling us iron oxide contains water, which is bollux, then tells us about fossil fuels without any useful information that might follow on from the observation that they're running out, then gives us the water cycle… When it starts on biodiversity (without even trying to define the term until the last ten pages) it yacks on about invasive species, and does so in a very patronising and 'worthy' manner. In fact I found the whole volume entirely off-putting, so the real life equivalents of the asinine kids presented with this bloke I've never heard of will not get the vital lesson the book aims for. Very, very disappointing.

Beautiful little graphic novel explaining some of the depth of biodiversity, why it's so important, and how because of it, we have the great many things we have today. Just lovely!