November 2023 – Nonfiction Monday

November 27, 2023November 26, 2023

Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong!

Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong!
by Dr. Nick Crumpton (Author) and Gavin Scott (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Each time you turn the page in this 64-page book for middle grade readers, you’ll see a dinosaur “fact” that has been proved wrong with more research.

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ALL DINOSAURS BECAME FOSSILS
WRONG!

Everything we know about dinosaurs comes from fossils, so we depend a lot on finding them. But there’s a problem . . . a bone becoming a fossil hardly EVER happens. It is an incredibly rare event and the chances of one single bone being fossilized is about one in a billion!

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November 20, 2023November 17, 2023

Beulah Has a Hunch!

Beulah Has a Hunch!: Inside the Colorful Mind of Master Inventor Beulah Louise Henry
by Katie Mazeika (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Growing up in the 1890s, when Beulah Louise Henry spotted a problem, she had to find a solution, turning it around and around in her mind until..aha! She had a hunch–what she called the inventions she came up with to solve the puzzles she saw all around her.

Beulah’s brain worked differently. She had hyperphantasia, which meant she saw things in extreme detail in her mind, as well as synesthesia, which caused words and numbers and even music notes to show up as different colors in her brain. Beulah’s unique way of seeing the world helped her think up vivid solutions to problems–Her hunches came to her fully formed with gears whirring and wheels spinning. She invented everything from a new and improved parasol to cuddly stuffed animals and from ice cream makers to factory machinery. Beulah’s inventions improved daily life in lots of ways, earning her the nickname “Lady Edison,” and she became one of the most prolific inventors in American history.

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