Anastasia Suen

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019

Chef Academy

Chef Academy
by Steve Martin (Author) and Hannah Bone (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Enroll at Chef Academy to learn a number of skills needed to become a world-class chef; discover how to make food look and taste delicious, what it takes to be a successful leader, and much more. You’ll also find a poster, a game, stickers, and even instructions for creating a chef’s hat of your own!

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January 4, 2019January 3, 2019

Food Fight!

Food Fight!: A Mouthwatering History of Who Ate What and Why Through the Ages
by Tanya Steel (Author)

Booktalk: Did you know that Christopher Columbus set out on his most famous voyage in search not of the new world, but cinnamon? Or that rich people in the Middle Ages served flaming peacocks and spun sugar castles to their lucky dinner party guests? Did you ever wonder why M&Ms were invented? (Hint: That candy coating isn’t just for decoration!) The quest for food has inspired all kinds of adventures and misadventures around the world, and this book explores the wildest and wackiest of them all, from prehistoric times through modern day. Stats and fast food facts are featured throughout, along with 30 original recipes, each specific to a particular time and place.

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December 28, 2018December 27, 2018

Leaf Litter Critters

Leaf Litter Critters
by Leslie Bulion (Author) and Robert Meganck (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Nineteen poems in a variety of verse forms with accompanying science notes take readers on a decomposer safari through the “brown food web,” from bacteria through tardigrades and on to rove beetle predators with other busy recyclers in-between. Glossary, hands-on investigations, and resources are included in the back matter.

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A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee

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December 21, 2018December 21, 2018

Family Trees

My new Focus on STEM column: Family Trees is in the December Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

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Talking about inherited family traits is a given whenever families gather. Traits are analyzed and compared across the generations with photos and family stories. Prepare students for text-to-self connection of their own inherited family traits during the winter break with these new animal books.

Click here to read Family Trees with eight #kidlit science books that support the Next Generation Science Standard for Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits in the classroom, the library, and at home!

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December 14, 2018December 13, 2018

In the Past

In the Past: From Trilobites to Dinosaurs to Mammoths in More Than 500 Million Years
by David Elliott (Author) and Matthew Trueman (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Return to the prehistoric era in this poetry collection that’s organized chronologically by epoch and discover a host of creatures both novel and familiar, from the mysterious trilobite to the famed T. rex.

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A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee

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December 7, 2018December 7, 2018

Earth Verse

Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up
by Sally M. Walker (Author) and William Grill (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Explore Earth’s many marvels — fossilized skeletons of plants and animals, terrific volcanic eruptions, the never-ending hydrologic cycle — with three-line haikus. Additional detailed explanations for the science behind each concept can be found in the back matter.

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A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee

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November 30, 2018November 29, 2018

Also an Animal

Also an Animal
by Lynn Parrish Sutton (Author) and Melissa Babcock Saylor (Illustrator)

Booktalk: An ode to the love between a parent and child as different members of the animal kingdom with thick cardstock pages for young readers.

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BONUS! Download the Also an Animal Coloring Pages

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November 23, 2018November 22, 2018

Seafloor Scavengers

Seafloor Scavengers
by Melissa Gish (Author)

Booktalk: Explore the bottoms of the world’s oceans and learn about the life forms that dwell there. First-person accounts from scientists answer important questions about scavenging and parasitic creatures and how they survive.

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November 16, 2018November 15, 2018

Bat Citizens

Bat Citizens
by Rob Laidlaw (Author)

Booktalk: Learn the facts about bats! From their habits and habitats to their importance for maintaining biodiversity, bat biology is explored alongside human-bat relations. Spotlight features on “Bat Citizens” encourages readers to pursue citizen science.

Snippet: Hibernacula are winter hibernation roosts. During winter, bats need stable, cool temperatures that do not change very much, and moist air that helps reduce the loss of body fluids.

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November 9, 2018November 8, 2018

Making Models

My new Focus on STEM column: Making Models is in the November Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

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Fall is here, and with the colder weather comes the yearly science fair. It’s time for students of all ages to think of a new way to solve an old problem and then test their ideas. To plan their experiments and to share their results, these young scientists will need to develop models.

Click here to read Making Models with eight #kidlit science books that support the Next Generation Science Standard for Developing and Using Models in the classroom and library.

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