What Is the Coronavirus Disease Covid-19?

By Michael Burgan, Who HQ, Manuel Gutierrez (illustrator)

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The #1 New York Times Best-Selling series tells the story of how COVID-19, a coronavirus, was first identified and how it spread throughout the world in the new Who HQ Now format for trending topics.


The coronavirus disease COVID-19 emerged in November 2019. By March 2020, cities all around the…

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1 author picked What Is the Coronavirus Disease Covid-19? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is for older children. I would offer it to strong readers in grades 4 through 6. Now that I think about it, it would probably be a really informative read for grown-ups… it doesn’t take long to get through the whole book, and the straightforward tone leaves little room for emotions or biases. It’s a refreshing presentation of the facts (though the content, of course, is not “refreshing”). This book opens with a vignette about the lockdown in March 2020 and then goes into a factual description of viruses in general and the coronavirus in particular. It then…

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