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the day the great lakes drained away

This looks like a book every Michigan schoolchild should read. (Thanks to George Weeks of the Detroit News for mentioning it in his Sunday column.)

http://www.mackinacislandpress.com/books_greatlakes.html

What would happen if we didn’t have the Great Lakes? What would we find on our lake floors? These and many other questions are explored in this intriguing children’s book. With concern about the Great Lakes paramount, Charles Ferguson Barker set out to create a book that takes children on an incredible journey, revealing the secrets of the lake floors if the unimaginable happened: the Great Lakes drained away. This book serves to entertain, but also to educate – children and adults will learn about the amazing newly discovered geologic features under the Great Lakes. Most importantly, the book will remind readers to never take the Great Lakes for granted.