Category: middle grade

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Drawing with Squiggles & Wiggles

Drawing with Squiggles & Wiggles: Create 100+ Cartoons with Fun Shapes!
by Christopher Hart (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Cartoonist Christopher Hart starts with a variety of silly shapes and transforms them step by step into dozens of original drawings. A spiral becomes an elephant’s trunk. Three bumps evolve into a trio of adorable pigs. A wavy line is turned into a girl with a stylish hairdo. Children of all ages will be able to follow along and create their own cartoons.

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I Begin with Spring

I Begin with Spring: The Life and Seasons of Henry David Thoreau
by Julie Dunlap (Author) and Megan Elizabeth Baratta (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Formatted like a nature notebook, this exploration of seasonal changes in Thoreau’s day is also a visual story of his life and times with an introduction to climate change in the back matter showing the use of his 150-year-old observations in our time.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

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