Month: August 2019

Is 2 a Lot?: An Adventure With Numbers
by Annie Watson (Author) and Rebecca Evans (Illustrator)

Booktalk: While Joey’s mom explains the context of numbers in vivid ways, Joey’s imagination transforms their ordinary car ride into a magical odyssey through a land of make-believe.

Snippet:
One day Joey had a very important question.

“Is 2 a lot?” he asked his mommy.

His mommy thought for a moment. Then she said,

“Well, TWO is not a lot of pennies . . .”

[TURN THE PAGE]

“but TWO is a lot of smelly skunks.”

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

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Truman by Jean Reidy (Author) and Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Truman the tortoise lives with his Sarah, high above the taxis and the trash trucks and the number eleven bus, which travels south. He never worries about the world below–until one day, when Sarah straps on a big backpack and does something Truman has never seen before. She boards the bus!

Truman waits for her to return.
He waits.
And waits.
And waits.
And when he can wait no longer, he knows what he must do.

Even if it seems . . . impossible!

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