Reviews for Pediatric toxicology

The average rating for Pediatric toxicology based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-19 00:00:00 Omar Omarr Now before I actually start reviewing Karleen Bradford’s With Nothing but Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald I want to point out this. For all intents and purposes, the United Empire Loyalists were ALL REFUGEES, and thus, for ANY contemporary Canadians spewing racial bigotry and animosity towards recent refugees from places like Syria and Afghanistan, well, if your own ancestors were United Empire Loyalists, your animosity towards recent refugees is not only totally unacceptable considering your family background, but yes, you also are majorly denigrating and trashing your brave refugee ancestors and the hardships they as United Empire Loyalists had to generally endure both on their often desperate escapes from the USA northwards and later when they were attempting to settle and make new lives for themselves and theirs. And yes indeed, of the Dear Canada series, With Nothing but Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald has most definitely been one of my favourites to date. For one, With Nothing but Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald features a both important and also interesting piece of Canadian history (since the settlement of much of Quebec, Ontario and parts of the Maritimes was indeed very much influenced and shaped by the post American Revolution arrival of many thousands of Loyalists, by the arrival of scores of refugees from the recently declared independent United States of America). And for two, with young (and of course also fictional) diarist Mary MacDonald, author Karleen Bradford has certainly created a both immensely likeable and personally relatable twelve year old main protagonist, whose narrative voice in With Nothing but Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald absolutely sparkles with presented realism, detailing in the journal entries the many hardships the MacDonald family as Loyalists have to endure on their trek northwards to Canada after being chased out of Albany, New York (not only losing their home and being called traitors by most of their former neighbours and friends, but also having to face their youngest daughter’s death en route), but of course also showing the MacDonalds’ fortitude, and yes, their courage, moving slowly from despair to hope and also accepting that their settlement in Canada, in what is now Canada, will be permanent, that there will in fact be no return to the USA and to the family’s former life. Highly recommended is With Nothing but Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary McDonald, but with the caveat that young Mary’s featured diary does pretty well depict and portray nearly all of the American “patriots” as being total and utterly ruthless villains (which is of course rather one-sided at best, but considering that Karleen Bradford has Mary MacDonald experience first had and at a young age her family being called traitors, her father’s school being burned down and them all being threatened with physical violence, even with hanging if the MacDonalds do not pack up and immediately leave, in my opinion, her reaction in her diary is understandable and entirely natural).

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-11 00:00:00 Joe Noble Considering I read this as an adult and it's written for children, I didn't have super high expectations for quality of authorship and historical authenticity. I was pleasantly surprised. The story was interesting enough to draw me in, and the history was good, down to the small details like herbal remedies. I read the book with friends while reenacting part of the experience of Loyalist refugees at an event at Ft. Saint Jean in Quebec, which was slightly surreal. I highly recommend the Dear America/Canada books for kids, but also for adults. They're a quick, but enjoyable read. Good on the author for doing her research.