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Animal Zombies!: And Other Bloodsucking Beasts, Creepy Creatures, and Real-Life Monsters
by Chana Stiefel (Author)

Booktalk: Discover more than 50 creatures with unusual talents, find out what makes each animal tick, and whether they are truly “monsters” after all.

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BLOODSUCKER BIO In the Middle Ages, “vampires” were often blamed for the unexplained spread of disease. Superstitious villagers weren’t completely wrong . . . the culprits were actually miniature vampires — not humans! Like ticks, fleas are known to spread diseases with their saliva. In medieval times, fleas spread the bubonic plague from rats to humans. After biting infected rats, the fleas passed the bacteria Yersinia pestis on to humans. The “Black Death,” so called because it produced black sores on the skin, killed 20 million people in Europe — almost a third of the continent’s population — possibly the worst “vampire” invasion of all time!

My new Focus on STEM column: Math Magic is in the February Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Booktalk: Make math fun and approachable with these pattern- and comparison-based projects.

Snippet: With only 28 days, February is the shortest month of the year–and halfway through it comes Valentine’s Day. After you teach the littlest ones to fold that red paper in half (using symmetry and scissors) to make a valentine, add a few more mathematics tricks to your repertoire. With these new books, activities, and tricks, mathematics can also be math-magic!?

Click here to see the six #kidlit math books and ten mathematics tricks in Math Magic.

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