Global: One Fragile World. An Epic Fight for Survival by Eoin Colfer (review)
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Abstract
Reviewed by: Global: One Fragile World. An Epic Fight for Survival by Eoin Colfer April Spisak Colfer, Eoin Global: One Fragile World. An Epic Fight for Survival; written by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin; illus. by Giovanni Rigano. Sourcebooks, 2023 [144p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781728257235 $24.99 Paper ed. ISBN 9781728262192 $14.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 6-8 The same team that created Illegal (BCCB 7/18), a powerful graphic novel about the dangers and difficulties undocumented immigrants face, tackles another dire topic: global warming. Perspective moves between two young people: Sami lives in the Bay of Bengal, part of a small fishing village that is enduring the impact of rising waters and an increasingly depleted Indian Ocean, while Yuki is a world away, up in the Arctic Circle, determined to do field research on polar bears in order to try to save them. Both children are admirably brave but persist to the point of foolhardiness, putting their lives in danger for things that feel incredibly important to them but are certainly less so for their guardians who almost lose them. The two storylines offer accessible and memorable entry points to a topic that can easily become overwhelming in scope and severity if presented on a global scale. The illustrations are vibrant and rich, the greens and blues of the ocean contrasting with the pale cream and silvery grays of an ice-filled (at least for now) Northern Canada. Both locations are imperiled by global warming but still beautiful and extraordinary, inspiring a [End Page 252] desire to preserve them. Informative end matter offers definitions and background details, including a grim authors' note that describes how UNICEF has identified one billion children as being "extremely high risk" of experiencing direct impacts of climate change, whether through increasing natural disasters, poverty brought on by depleted resources or abandoned industries, or pollution. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.043 | 0.025 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".