{"id":9252,"date":"2018-04-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2018-04-02T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:27:34","slug":"g-is-gorilla-dawn-on-dangerous-days-by-gill-lewis-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9252","title":{"rendered":"G is Gorilla Dawn on dangerous days, by Gill Lewis (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"USWe depend on our smartphones
\nwhich depend on tantalum found in coltan<\/a>
\nwhose mining destroys families – human and gorilla!<\/p>\n

Why does corporate greed incite kidnapping and environmental catastrophe in the Congo and elsewhere?<\/p>\n

How can we individuals make it stop, save children like Imara and Bobo from being kidnapped and enslaved to mine coltan, protect habitat for gorillas?<\/p>\n

This middle-grade novel reminds us how interconnected we are and how our unthinking consumer choices can drastically affect others.<\/p>\n

When is a smartphone a dumb choice?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Gorilla Dawn \/ Gill Lewis; illustrated by Susan Meyer. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017 hardcover, May 2018 paperback. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [author video<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We depend on our smartphones which depend on tantalum found in coltan whose mining destroys families – human and gorilla! Why does corporate greed incite kidnapping and environmental catastrophe in the Congo and elsewhere? How can we individuals make it stop, save children like Imara and Bobo from being kidnapped and enslaved to mine coltan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[10,90,272,22,7,4,75,11,45,20,318,5,70,37,16,18,43,71,184,31,12,15,21,57,35,33,28],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-animals","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-congo","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-author","tag-refugees","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}