Anastasia Suen

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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November 2, 2018November 1, 2018

Over on a Desert

Over on a Desert: Somewhere in the World
by Marianne Berkes (Author) and Jill Dubin (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Deserts are full of surprises! Count to ten as you see an amazing array of animals that call this driest place on Earth their home. Additional animal information, a world map, and sheet music in the back of the book.

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BONUS! Download the free activities!

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October 26, 2018October 25, 2018

He’s Your Daddy

He’s Your Daddy: Ducklings, Joeys, Kits, and More
by Charline Profiri (Author) and Andrea Gabriel (Illustrator)

Booktalk: “If you were an animal – wild or tame, would you know your daddy’s name?” Every page answers this question with a different animal. Meet a joey riding piggy-back whose daddy is a sugar glider, a calf whose daddy is a towering giraffe, and a tiny fry floating next to its seahorse daddy. Additional animal information, matching game, and tips in the back of the book.

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BONUS! Download the Match Game!

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October 19, 2018October 25, 2018

Fly With Me

Fly With Me: A Celebration of Birds through Pictures, Poems, and Stories
by Jane Yolen (Author), Heidi Stemple (Author), Adam Stemple (Author) and Jason Stemple (Author/ Photographer)

Booktalk: Stories, poems, songs, facts, and photos fill the pages of this 192 page treasury celebrating the amazing world of birds in this Year of the Bird. Even the back cover has a poem on it! (See below.) Keep this book by your window with a cell phone and binoculars . . .

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Digiscoping
Although photographing birds professionally takes expensive camera equipment and an expert eye, you can get started without either of those. Digiscoping is a way to capture close-up pictures of birds with a digital camera, even a cell phone camera, and a telescope or a pair of binoculars.

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