Frederick Banting: Discoverer of Insulin

Jean Free, a library consultant, is a retired public-school teacher and
librarian in Whitby, Ontario.

With his discovery of insulin, Banting changed the lives of people who
have diabetes. Born in Alliston, Ontario, he was a doctor in France in
World War I and completed research on insulin at the University of
Toronto with Charles Best, earning a Nobel prize in 1923. His impact on
Canadian research was immense.

Frederick Banting is part of Copp Clark’s Scientists and Inventors
series, which includes books on Alfred Nobel, Marie Curie, and Armand
Bombardier. The series is well written, with many photographs (in color
and black-and-white) and interesting visual presentations on each page.
A glossary is included, and the short chapters and many headings will
encourage reluctant readers.

This series would be a useful choice for junior-grade students doing
biographical research, since the format is so appealing and the text
interestingly presented.