Zero! The Number That Almost Wasn’t
by Sarah Albee (Author) and Chris Hsu (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: How did math work before zero existed? This nonfiction book unpacks a fascinating history of a number we can’t imagine our current world without.
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Moon Matching Game
by NASA
Booktalk: The first Friday in May is Space Day. Use this matching game with NASA photos of moon phases and famous spacecraft with the books about space already in your collection.
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Nature’s Tiny Champions: The Big Book of Little Creatures Doing Mighty Things
by Ben Lerwill (Author) and Nic Jones (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Featuring 20 little animals, from the nocturnal dung beetle, cape dwarf chameleon, and golden poison frog to the bumblebee bat, reef starfish, and bee hummingbird, this oversized nonfiction guide reveals how even the tiniest insects, invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds can play key roles in natural phenomena such as migration, food chains, and pollination.
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My First Town: A Building Block Book
by Merrill Rainey (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Watch as young minds come alive as they pop out pieces, then fold and glue together a town filled with buildings, vehicles, and friendly faces.
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Blossom Origami
by Clover Robin (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: With 13 nature-inspired origami step-by-step patterns, this activity book has origami inspiration, original art, and extracts from well-loved nature poems, as well as 50 sheets of origami paper. The three difficulty levels are clearly marked and the QR code links aspiring origami artists to how-to videos that cover all pieces and steps in the book.
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The Six — Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts
by Loren Grush (Author) and Rebecca Stefoff (Author)
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Booktalk: Sally Ride may have been the first US woman in space, but did you know there were five other incredible American women who helped blaze the trail for female astronauts by her side?
When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots—a group women were also aggressively barred from—had the right stuff. But as the 1980s dawned so did new thinking, and six elite women scientists—Sally Ride, Judith Resnik, Anna Lee Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon—set out to prove they had exactly the right stuff to become the first US women astronauts.
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My new Focus on STEM column, Our Amazing Earth, is in the March Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter from Booklist.
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Influential Women in Mathematics
by Shasta Clinch (Author)
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Booktalk: This chapter book introduces four women who have contributed to the field of mathematics. The first is Hypatia (hih-PAH-tyah) who was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in the mid-300s AD.
Snippet: Hypatia helped her father with his work. Soon she became an expert at math. She was one of the first female mathematicians.
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Let’s Learn Numbers Board Book
by Olga Utchenko (Artist)
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Booktalk: Little learners can practice counting one through ten with creatures and objects unique to the sea in this board book.
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There’s Science in Salt
by Cécile Jugla (Author), Jack Guichard (Author), Laurent Simon (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Try 10 easy activities and experiments to discover great scientific principles using . . . salt!
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