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MEGA-COOL MEGAFAUNA series

MEGA-COOL MEGAFAUNA series
by Anastasia Suen (Author)

Booktalk: My MEGA-COOL MEGAFAUNA series came out during the pandemic and now all four books are online as e-books. Hooray! Click the links under each title to find them at your library.

@ Hoopla | Overdrive | WorldCat

@ Hoopla | Overdrive | WorldCat

@ Hoopla | Overdrive | WorldCat

@ Hoopla | Overdrive | WorldCat

These middle grade expository books are written in prose, but I’ve been writing STEM poetry for years, so that’s what I did for this author visit mini-comic.

In the What is your favorite BIG animal? mini-comic, I’ve written two pocket poems about two of the creatures in the MEGA-COOL MEGAFAUNA Creatures of Today book. Each pocket poem is based on two facts from the book.

What will the third poem be? That’s up to you–and your students! Write two facts about your favorite BIG animal on page 6 and write a pocket poem using those facts on page 7. Then draw your animal on page 8.

Sylvia and Janet are hosting Poetry Friday at Poetry for Children

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

Copyright © 2022 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.

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One Blue Gnu

One Blue Gnu
by Danna Smith (Author) and Ana Zurita (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

Booktalk: When a box of cell phones is accidentally delivered to the zoo, one blue gnu quickly calls two white sheep, who plan a party — beep beep beep! News of the party spreads to three orange apes, four red pandas and five green ducks… up until ten purple birds learn it’s party time! But oh no — who invited tiger, and who will he call on his new phone? Count from one to ten and down again!

Snippet:

Four red pandas in the sun
agree a party would be fun.

See the book trailer.

Copyright © 2022 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.