Author: Anastasia Suen

From her studio in Northern California, developmental editor Anastasia Suen reads, writes, and edits books for creators of all ages.
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Road Trip Earth: Explore Our Awesome Planet, from Core to Shore and So Much More

Road Trip Earth: Explore Our Awesome Planet, from Core to Shore and So Much More
by Molly Bloom (Author), Marc Sanchez (Author) and Sanden Totten (Author)
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Booktalk: Did you ever wonder why volcanoes erupt? Or why the ocean is salty? How about why no two snowflakes are the same?

Embark on an epic road trip to find the answers to these burning questions and more! Travel deep inside the earth, through the oceans, the land, the clouds, and even into the outer atmosphere in a high-tech ride–to uncover the coolest facts, strangest mysteries, and most incredible marvels of our planet.

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Engines!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids

Engines!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids
by Donna McKinney (Author) and Tom Casteel (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: From ancient times to now, engines have powered the activities of people’s lives. Readers ages 7 to 10 can explore engines through hands-on STEM projects including building a catapult, a milk-carton conveyor belt, and a magnet-powered car. QR codes link to videos online.

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Flash and Gleam: Light in Our World

Flash and Gleam: Light in Our World
by Sue Fliess (Author) and Khoa Le (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Follow four children as they experience many different forms of light in this rhyming STEM picture book.

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Heidi is hosting Poetry Friday at my juicy little universe

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Inside In: X-Rays of Nature’s Hidden World

Inside In: X-Rays of Nature’s Hidden World
by Jan Paul Schutten (Author), Arie van ‘t Riet (Illustrator), and Laura Watkinson (Translator)
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Booktalk: Arie van ‘t Riet is a Dutch artist and medical physicist who uses X-ray equipment to create “bioramas”–X-ray portraits of animals and plants. While teaching the physics of radiation and radiation safety, he became interested in the application of low-energy X-rays to capture delicate objects. Now you can discover nature’s secret world with this collection of X-ray photographs of animals and plants!

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Wheels! All About Transport

Wheels! All About Transport
by Moira Butterfield (Author) and Bryony Clarkson (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Come and hitch a ride in vehicles of every shape and size –from family cars to double-decker buses, chugging tractors to speedy supercars, and gigantic monster trucks to noisy fire engines.

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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

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Bones Unearthed!

Bones Unearthed!
by Kerrie Logan Hollihan (Author)
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Booktalk: Combining history with science, the third book of the Creepy and True series unearths the truth about famous bones by exploring forensic evidence, archaeology, anthropology, medicine, and folklore. Chapter by chapter, these cryptic tales of murder and mayhem span across cultures and millennia, covering everything from Aztec skull racks, the cannibals of Jamestown, and Benjamin Franklin’s basement boneyard, to frozen sailors in the Arctic and the centuries-long search for the body of King Richard III.

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Air Show read aloud

Air Show
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and and Cecco Mariniello (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Cougars, Panthers, Camels, and Mosquitos. What do these animals have in common? Their names identify the historic airplanes that take flight at this spectacular air show event.

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This week’s author visit mini-comic, What would you name a new airplane?, answers questions about why I wrote about airplanes at an air show.

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