Month: July 2018

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Impossible Inventions

Impossible Inventions: Ideas That Shouldn’t Work
by Malgorzata Mycielska (Author), Alexandra Mizielinski (Illustrator), Daniel Mizielinski (Illustrator), and Agnes Monod-Gayraud (Translator)

Booktalk: This book is a collection of ancient and modern inventions. Some are revolutionary, others comical, others simply impossible. But each testifies to the extraordinary imagination of its inventor. You’ll find a flying bicycle, a bubble telegraph, passenger clouds and passenger birds, mechanical chess players, a water clock, a concentration helmet (below), and many more incredible ideas.

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Water’s Children

Water’s Children: Celebrating the Resource That Unites Us All
by Angèle Delaunois (Author), Gérard Frischeteau (Illustrator), and Erin Woods (Translator)

Booktalk: Around the world, water appears in many forms: a snowflake, an oasis, the stream from a faucet, monsoon rain. Twelve young people describe what water means to them and their descriptions are as varied as the landscapes the speakers inhabit. Each of them also expresses, in their own language, a universal truth: Water is life.

If you look carefuly and you can see the words, “Water is life” in the child’s native language in the art on each page spread.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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