Synopses & Reviews
On This Spot
See buildings soar and traffic zoom, a kaleidoscope of color and movement. Now turn the page and time-travel back 175 years, where on the same spot carriages bumped and pigs raced across cobblestones. Turn again and go back 400 years to when a Lenape Indian trail crossed the spot. Now travel farther still, to when glaciers crept . . . dinosaurs preyed . . . a tropical sea teemed with ancient creatures . . . back 540 million years, when rock was all you could see.
What happened on this spot? What will happen next? Look out your window. What happened on that spot?
About the Author
Susan E. Goodman is the author of many books for children, including
Claws, Coats, and Camouflage and
Seeds, Stems, and Stamens, both named Outstanding Science Trade Books by the National Science Teachers Association, and
Animal Rescue (an American Bookseller Association Pick of the List). She began to write
On This Spot the day she "started thinking about how most of us assume that what is now always was, and always will be."
Susan E. Goodman lives with her family in Boston, Massachusetts.