"Yezerski not only can write a book on how to teach children about their environmental impact - he has. Meadowlands is tremendously (but not intimidatingly) informative, fun to read and gorgeous to look at."

- New York Times

"Yezerski adroitly captures the tensions and hope in the sometimes adversarial, sometimes beneficial relationship between humans and the environment in this marvelous ecological history of the Meadowlands of New Jersey."

- The Horn Book, starred review

"The goal is not displacement but coexistence. Although readers who know the Meadowlands personally will have a special interest in the topic, the idea of fostering and protecting plant and animal habitats in urban environments can resonate with a broad audience."

- School Library Journal, starred review

"Judicious ink and watercolor illustrations pair with tender prose to tell the story of the Meadowlands estuary in New Jersey, which bounced back from being 'one of the worst places in America'"

- Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Thomas Yezerski's pleasingly presented history of this 'flat, wet place in New Jersey' helps all of us see the workings of an estuary, spongy ground where a freshwater river meets the ocean tides."

- Chicago Tribune

"With beautiful ink-and-watercolor art, this picture book tells an urban-conservation story of how the New Jersey wetlands are slowly recovering from decades of pollution."

- Booklist

"Reminiscent of Lynne Cherry's A River Ran Wild (1992) in its subject and design, this appealing story of environmental recovery is simpler in its text and even clearer in its illustrations . . . A spectacular offering . . ."

- Kirkus Reviews

"The text handily covers the particulars, but keen, patient observers can 'read' the ecological story through the illustrations alone."

- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Tom Yezerski deserves major kudos for Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story because his is the first book that finally gets the Meadowlands right. Not since John R. Quinn's Fields of Sun and Grass has an author truly captured the complex reality that is the Meaowlands. The fact that Meaowlands is a children's book makes it all the better, because every young person who reads it will learn the real story of that unique urban wilderness."

- Captain Bill Sheehan, Hackensack Riverkeeper