Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Books
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Little Kids First Big Book of Pets
by Catherine Hughes (Author)
Booktalk: Learn which kinds of animals make good pets and which ones are better off staying in the wild, along with how each type of pet eats, sleeps, and plays in this chapter book with more than 200 photos.
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Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
by Tony Hillery (Author) and Jessie Hartland (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Discover the incredible true story of Harlem Grown, a lush garden in New York City that grew out of an abandoned lot and now feeds a neighborhood.
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If We Were Gone: Imagining the World without People
by John Coy (Author) and Natalie Capannelli (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Water, air, sunlight, plants . . . we need these elements to live in this world. But does the world need us? And what would happen to the world if humans were gone? Nature would reclaim the planet!
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Every Second: 100 Lightning Strikes, 8,000 Scoops of Ice Cream, 200,000 Text Messages, 1 Million Gallons of Cow Burps … and Other Incredible Things That Happen Each Second Around the World
by Bruno Gibert (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: See some of the incredible things that happen each and every second in our world! A unique introduction to numbers and statistics for kids in kindergarten and elementary school.
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The Ocean: Exploring Our Blue Planet
by Miranda Krestovnikoff (Author) and Jill Calder (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Oceans cover more than 70% of the world–and so much science is lurking underneath that water’s surface. This survey-style book look at the creatures and plants that populate the world’s deepest seas and oceans and the people who have explored it, as well as a taking a critical look at what is at stake now in protecting these waters.
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My new Focus on STEM column: Makers, Then and Now is in the August Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.
Booktalk: Use these handy printable activities to help kids learn about makers throughout history.
Snippet: The term makerspace may be new, but being a maker isn’t. As you’ll see in these new picture-book biographies, people have been making things to express themselves and solve problems for many years.
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West Coast Wild Babies
by Deborah Hodge (Author) and Karen Reczuch (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Wild babies are being born — in the ocean, on the shore and deep inside the ancient rainforest. Wolf pups, cougar kittens, bear cubs and whale calves all begin their life in the pristine wilderness of this magnificent place.
Young readers will meet a fascinating group of fourteen wild baby animals — including land and marine mammals, fish, birds and amphibians — and learn about the special bonds between offspring and parents, and how the newborns move toward independence.
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Curious About Birds
by Cathryn Sill (Author) and John Sill (Illustrator)
Booktalk: See how birds look, where they live, what they eat, and how they move around in this board book beginner’s guide.
Snippet: Birds have feathers.
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Spaceman: The True Story of a Young Boy’s Journey to Becoming an Astronaut
by Mike Massimino (Author)
Booktalk: From the time he was seven-years-old and saw Apollo 11 land on the moon, Mike Massimino dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Long Island is a long way from space. Kids like him, growing up in working-class families, seldom left the neighborhood. But with the encouragement of teachers and mentors, Mike ventured down on a path that took him to Columbia University and to MIT. It wasn’t easy. There were academic setbacks and disappointments aplenty–and NASA turned him down three times. Still, Mike never gave up. He rose to each challenge and forged ahead, inching closer to realizing his boyhood dream. His love of science and space, along with his indomitable spirit and sense of teamwork eventually got him assigned to two missions to fix the Hubble Space Telescope–as a spacewalker.
Snippet: On March 1, 2020, I left Earth for the first ime. I got on board the space shuttle Columbia and blasted 350 miles into orbit. It was a big day, a day I’d been dreaming about since I was seven years old, a day I’d been training for nonstop since NASA had accepted me into the astronaut training program six years earlier. But even with all of that waiting and planning, I still wasn’t ready. Nothing you do on this planet can ever truly prepare you for what it means to leave it.
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Dream Big, Little Scientists: A Bedtime Book
by Michelle Schaub (Author) and Alice Potter (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Twelve kids. A dozen bedtimes. Endless sweet ways to say goodnight with science! This bedtime story for budding scientists introduces eleven branches of science.
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See the book trailer.
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