September 2021 - Page 12 of 13

Ocean Soup: A Recipe for You, Me, and a Cleaner Sea
by Meeg Pincus (Author) and Lucy Semple (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: From the shore, the ocean looks like clear, sparkling blue but look closely at a small scoop and you’ll find the ocean looks more like soup! Our oceans are filled with plastics, from water bottles and take-out containers to the teeny tiny plastic particles you need a microscope to see. But who exactly cooked up this stinky soup? And, more importantly, what is the recipe for getting (and keeping) our oceans clean?

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

Grandfather Bowhead, Tell Me A Story
by Aviaq Johnston (Author) and Tamara Campeau (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Bowhead whales are the longest-living mammals on the planet, living over 200 years. In this picture book story, a grandfather bowhead recounts to his young grandchild calf all the beautiful, amazing, and surprising things he has seen in his lifetime, all while assuring the little calf that there is nothing more wondrous than the love a grandfather has for his grandchild.

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Grandfather Bowhead, tell me a story
of all the joyful animals you have met.

Little Arvaaq, I’ve met dancing seals who entertained us all,
but they do not compare to the joys of watching you swim in the waves.