Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Books
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
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!
by Kerrie Logan Hollihan (Author)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
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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Busy, Busy Birds
by Geraldo Valério (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: This board book introduces young ones to a colorful collection of very busy birds.
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Some birds sing.
Red-winged Blackbird
Other birds hum.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
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Air Show
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and and Cecco Mariniello (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Overdrive e-book | WorldCat
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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Roto and Roy: Helicopter Heroes
by Sherri Duskey Rinker (Author) and Don Tate (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: When a dangerous forest fire burns out of control, helicopter Roto and pilot Roy are ready to fly to the rescue! They’re braver than brave, tougher than tough, and nothing will stop this firefighting crew from completing their mission.
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The illustrator, Don Tate, is one of my former students.
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Marie Curious, Girl Genius Saves the World
by Chris Edison (Author)
Booktalk: Young inventor Marie can’t believe her luck when she earns a place at a high-tech summer camp in California owned by tech guru and multi-millionaire Sterling Vance. It’s nothing short of a dream come true. She and the other super-clever campers get to build robots, do supercool science experiments and test out awesome gadgets. But not everyone is a happy camper . . . Someone is sabotaging their robots, so Marie and her new friends team up to catch the culprit. Can Marie outsmart an evil engineer intent on causing a global disaster?
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Penguin Journey
by Angela Burke Kunkel (Author) and Catherine Odell (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: A rhyming picture book about the incredible lengths to which emperor penguins go for their young ones.
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The Case of the Missing Cookies (Mini Math Mysteries)
by Thomas K. and Heather Adamson (Authors) with Charlie Alder (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Who took the cookies? Be a math detective along with the kids at Lincoln Elementary in this pick-your-own-path mystery. Use your addition, subtraction, and skip counting skills to solve the case.
Snippet: Hurray! Mr. Jeb’s class won this month’s reading prize. The class gets two boxes of cookies from Mrs. Bonn’s bakery. Each box has 12 cookies.
Gina knows there are 19 kids in her class. She wonders, are there enough cookies for the whole class?
If there were enough cookies, turn to page 6.
If there are not enough cookies, turn to page 8.
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Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum (Storytelling Math)
by Natasha Yim (Author) and Violet Kim (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Booktalk: On Luna’s birthday, the whole family goes out for dim sum–but Luna and her brothers can’t agree on how to share their pork buns fairly. How can three people divide up five buns? Should some siblings get more than others? Or should they cut the buns into smaller and smaller pieces so everyone gets the same amount?
Luna and the author both have Year of the Tiger birthdays – and the next Year of the Tiger begins on February 1, 2022!
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