Pass The Pandowdy, Please

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Pass The Pandowdy, Please: Chewing on History with Famous Folks and Their Fabulous Foods
by Abigail Zelz (Author) and Eric Zelz (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Follow up a week of family feasting with a brief history of famous folks and their fabulous foods! Includes a timeline of food around the world, short bios of each famous person in the book, and an 1882 recipe for pandowdy, a baked apple pie dessert.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

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When Amelia Earhart Built a Roller Coaster

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When Amelia Earhart Built a Roller Coaster
by Mark Weakland (Author) and Oksana Grivina (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Amelia Earhart was one of America’s most famous aviators. But do you know what she was like as a child? From running on the river bluffs and playing football to building a roller coaster, Amelia Earhart was an active and confident child.

Snippet: Amelia loved mechanical things. Her most famous creation was a roller coaster. The track was made of boards greased with lard. The car was an empty wooden crate.

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

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