Anastasia Suen – Page 18 – Booktalking #kidlit

This Orq. (He Cave Boy.)

This Orq. (He Cave Boy.)
by David Elliott (Author) and Lori Nichols (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Meet Orq, cave boy. And Woma, woolly mammoth. Orq love Woma. Only one problem: Mom is not a fan of Woma, who sheds and smells and is definitely not cave-trained.

Snippet:
This Orq.
He live in cave.
He carry club.
He cave boy.

Fall (Watching the Seasons)

Fall (Watching the Seasons)
by Emily C. Dawson (Author)

Booktalk: A simple fact book for new readers with close-up full color photographs.

Snippet: In fall, nature is busy.

Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction

Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction
by Saul Griffith (Author), Ingrid Dragotta (Author), Nick Dragotta (Author, Artist) and more!

Booktalk: Howtoons celebrates their 10th anniversary with a 360 page remastered collection containing more than 70 projects of the “best of” Howtoons over those years, along with new material, photos, and essays by the creators of the series.

Combining comics and real-life science and engineering principles, Howtoons encourages kids to become active participants in the world around them. Follow Celine and Tucker as they learn through play! Challenged to make something “other than trouble,” this brother-and-sister pair use everyday objects to invent toys that readers can build!

Snippet:

See the large scale hovercraft video!

See the zoetrope video!

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

Voices from the March on Washington

Voices from the March on Washington
by J. Patrick Lewis (Author) and George Ella Lyon (Author)

Booktalk: This powerful poetry collection weaves together the voices of six fictional narrators to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963.

RAYMOND JARVIS, 25
B.A. DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
OUT-OF-WORK STORE CLERK
AMARILLO, TEXAS

THE RIDE

When we take our seats, the bus comes alive
honeybee people swarming to a hive,
buzzing with excitement and disbelief
at doing something to ease our grief.

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up will be hosted by The Poem Farm.

Painting the Rainbow

Painting the Rainbow
by Amy Gordon (Author)

Booktalk: In the summer of 1965, Holly and her cousin Ivy discover family secrets no one has spoken of since World War II involving a terrifying accident, their Uncle Jesse’s death in a Japanese Internment camp, and a boy named Kiyo.

Snippet: “What is a Japanese camp, Gigi?” I hear my own voice come out in a little squeak.

Gigi turned around to look at me. “Oh my Lord, Holly. I forgot you were here. I shouldn’t be talking like this.” But she turned back to Randy and started talking again.

Rabbi Benjamin’s Buttons

Rabbi Benjamin’s Buttons
by Alice B. McGinty (Author) and Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Illustrator)

Booktalk: The families of the congregation make Rabbi Benjamin a special holiday vest, complete with four shiny silver buttons. Throughout the year—Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Chanukah, and Passover—the rabbi celebrates with his congregation, unable to resist their delicious home-cooked food. But with each holiday his vest grows tight, tighter, until . . . POP! (Recipes included in the back of the book!)

Snippet: During Sukkot, the fall festival of the harvest, Rabbi Benjamin visited a different family’s sukkah each night. Sitting in on their sukkot under starry skies, they sang songs of thanksgiving and ate meals of squash, stuffed cabbage, and sweet potato pie. The rabbi ate and sang until the holiday vest stretched very tightly across his belly.

Bugged: How Insects Changed History

Bugged: How Insects Changed History
by Sarah Albee (Author) and Robert Leighton (Illustrator)

Booktalk: For as long as humans have been on earth, we’ve co-existed with insects . . . for better or for worse. Once you begin to look at world history through fly-specked glasses, you begin to see the mark of these minute life forms at every turn. Beneficial bugs have built empires. Bad bugs have toppled them.

Snippet: When Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes first encountered the Aztecs of Mexico in 1518 he was amazed by the brilliance of the red robes worn by the Aztec leader, Montezuma II, and his high-ranking officials. The color was brighter and richer than any red seen in Europe…Cortes was doubly astonished when he learned that the Aztecs’ brilliant red was made from squashed bug bodies.

Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

Our Solar System

Our Solar System
by Seymour Simon (Author)

Booktalk: Visit the eight planets and their moons, as well as asteroids and comets in this new, updated edition!

Snippet: Our Solar System was born among the billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. About 4.6 billion years ago, a huge cloud of dust and hydrogen gas floating at the edges of the galaxy began to pull together to form a disk.

See inside the book!

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

Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole

Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
by Irene Latham (Author) and Anna Wadham (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands in this poetry collection with facts about the animals and their environment accompanying each poem.

Snippet:
Dear Wandering Wildebeest

Wander with me,
meander with me.

Come, be my companion
in this wildebeest sea.

**Irene is one of my former students!**

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up will be hosted by No Water River.

The Prince of Venice Beach

The Prince of Venice Beach
by Blake Nelson (Author)

Booktalk: Robert “‘Cali” Callahan is a teen runaway, living on the streets of Venice Beach, California. He’s got a pretty sweet life: a treehouse to sleep in, a gang of surf bros, a regular basketball game…even a girl who’s maybe-sorta interested in him.

What he doesn’t have is a plan.

All that changes when a local cop refers Cali to a private investigator who is looking for a missing teenager. After all, Cali knows everyone in Venice. But the streets are filled with people who don’t want to be found…

Snippet: I was only half listening. I spun the wheel of my skateboard with my fingers. It was late afternoon now, and hot. I was in the mood for a nap. Or maybe a slice of pizza. I lifted my head up to see who was working at the Pizza Slice…and that’s when I saw the kid.