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whatabeautifulmorning

What a Beautiful Morning
by Arthur Levine (Author) and Katie Kath (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Every morning is beautiful when Noah visits his Grandparents. When Grandpa and Noah wake up, they take off singing and hardly stop: walking the dog, splashing through puddles, and eating French toast with cinnamon.

But one summer Grandpa seems to have forgotten how to do the things they love. Does he even know who Noah is?

Grandma steps in energetically, filling in as best she can. But it is Noah who finds the way back to something he can share with Grandpa. Something musical. Something that makes the morning beautiful again.

Snippet: Noah banged out the screen door and stood in the middle of the lawn, breathing hard, a painful lump in his throat.

Grandma came outside after him and kneeled down so she could look in his eyes.

She touched Noah’s cheek, sighed and said, “Grandpa knows you. He just gets confused, that’s all. So we have to appreciate what he still has, not focus on what he’s lost.

Noah thought that was like trying to feel good about the toys you still had, when your favorite one got left behind at the beach.

So he went ahead . . .

What A Beautiful Morning Blog Tour

8/2 Flowering Minds

8/3 MomReadIt

8/4 Unpacking the POWER of Picture Books

8/5 Stacking Books

8/6 #kidlit Book of the Day

8/8 Enjoy Embrace Learning

8/9 Unleashing Readers

8/10 Two Writing Teachers

8/11 Bildebok

8/12 Geo Librarian

8/13 Randomly Reading

Read all of the other posts on this blog tour for a book about a timely topic!

findyourfutureinscience
Find Your Future in Science
by Diane Lindsey Reeves (Author)

Booktalk: Find Your Future in Science introduces 8 high-interest science careers via reader-friendly profiles and sidebar features that inspire extended learning, online research, and critical thinking skills. Back matter includes additional learning activities.

Snippet: Young scientists start by asking lots of questions. Why? How? What if?

Curiosity keeps them exploring. Every fascinating discovery lights a spark, an idea, an interest, a connection.

Before they know it, they are hooked. Science is awesome!

Then they find out that can grow up and be a scientist. What? You mean that companies will actually pay you to do science as your job?

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