November 2019 - Page 5 of 15

Adventures on Earth
by Simon Tyler (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: Follow in the footsteps of the world’s most famous explorers and travel to the extremes of our environment on Earth–learn about the highest and deepest, hottest and coldest places on Earth. Discover the world’s most wild terrain–deserts, mountains, volcanoes, rivers, jungles, oceans, the polar regions and more and learn about how they were discovered and explored by human adventurers. Find out how these regions are under threat from global warming and other issues, and learn what we can do to conserve them.

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

Otto Blotter, Bird Spotter
by Graham Carter (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: The Blotter family are famous bird spotters, who stay in their hideout all day. All except for Otto–he’d rather go out and have big adventures. When he follows the BIGGEST footprints he’s ever seen, he finds an extraordinary baby bird all on its own. Otto’s new friend soon reveals a very special ability: camouflage! But the bird keeps growing and growing, and Otto begins to suspect it may have a family after all . . . perhaps the time has come to take him home?

Keen-eyed readers may spot the bird’s giant family hidden on the pages, if they’re good enough bird spotters!

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