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Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin
by Deborah Kerbel (Author) and Angela Poon (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: In 1921, Frederick Banting was a young doctor with an idea: could the mysterious secretions of the pancreas be used to treat diabetes? We now call this substance insulin, and its life-saving discovery was an impactful milestone in medical science.

Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, worked together in a small lab to test the theory with street dogs. Banting formed a special bond with one of his test dogs and gave her a name: Marjorie. After Marjorie responded well to insulin treatments, the treatments went on to be used for humans with diabetes–and the results were deemed practically miraculous.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

Baby Born
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Chih-Wei Chang (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: The twentieth-anniversary edition of this rhyming story of a baby’s first year came out in paperback in 2019 with new pages at the end that have questions for older siblings.

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Download the Teacher’s Guide.

And because 2022 is turning out to be yet another tricky year for planning ahead, I’m beginning the spring semester by sharing a new mini-comic for readers to use with one of my books once a week.

This week’s mini-comic, I am thankful for my family, is a do-it-yourself mini-comic for young readers to illustrate. After you enter your contact info in the form, the mini-comics library will email you a download link. Print your comic on 8.5×11″ paper in full-color or gray-scale (black ink only). Enjoy!

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Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin

Baby Born read aloud